Fergusson, James: History of Indian and Eastern architecture (Band 1) (London, 1910)

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BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE.

Book I.

during these 500 years. If Woodcut No. 75 is compared
with the dagabas in Nos. 70 and 71, it will be seen how much
the low rounded form of the early examples had been conven-
tionalised into a tall steeple-like object. The drum had become
more important than the dome, and was ornamented with archi-
tectural features that have no meaning as applied. But more

74. View of Facade, Chaitya Cave No, 19 at Ajanta. (From a Photograph.)

curious still is the form the triple umbrella had assumed. It
had now become a steeple reaching almost to the roof of the
cave, and its original form and meaning would hardly be suspected
by those who were not familiar with the intermediate steps.

I am not aware of more than three umbrellas being found
surmounting any dagaba in the caves, but the following repre-
sentation of a model of one found at Sultanpur, near Jalalabad
(Woodcut No. 76), probably of about the same age, has six
such discs ; and in Bihar numerous models are found with
seven, making with the base and finial nine storeys,1 which

1 Kittoe in ‘J0UrnaI of the Asiatic | No. 20, p. 80; and Foucher, ‘ L’Art
Society of Bengal,’ vol. xvii. (1847), Greco-Bouddhique du Gandhara,’tome i.
pp. I72ff., plate 6; conf. ante, Woodcut p. 79.