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BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE.
Book I.
passage between them leading to the third cell. Next are
three more cells grouped by the sides of a vaulted room
about 8 ft. 6 in. by 9 ft. 6 in.; but beyond this most of the
cells are almost destroyed.
The only ornamentation on these caves is the “ chaitya
window” over the doors and some of the windows as we
find it in the verandah at Bedsa (Woodcut No. 65), with three
curved lattices, and the terminal above is a circular knob. But
the door jambs, curiously enough, splay outwards or make
the openings widest above; they appear also to have been
fitted with wooden posts and lintels. Over the windows and
inside doorways only, the projecting horseshoe arch was carved,
whilst two of the principal doors had arched heads.
About a hundred yards south from these monks’ cells,
on the brow of the hill in which they are excavated, is a
circular cave, like that at Junnar (Woodcut 80, p. 158), con-
87. Fafade of Chaitya Cave at Guntupalle. (From a
Drawing by Mr. A. Rea.) Scale io ft. to i in.
taining a dagaba. This cave is 18 ft. in diameter and 14 ft.
9 in. high, and the drum of the dagaba is 3 ft. 9 in. high
with a diameter of 12 ft. at the floor; its dome is hemispherical
and of 4 ft. 7 in. radius. Upon it is left a knob, as if part
of the staff of an umbrella, but, perhaps, it is only a fragment
of the original capital which has been hewn away to convert
it into the Naiva Lingam for which it is now worshipped.
The dome of the roof is elliptical, rising 7 ft. 3 in. in the
centre, and is carved with sixteen radiating curved ribs on
which four concentric circular rafters are represented as resting.
At Junnar these were probably of wood, and have long ago
BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE.
Book I.
passage between them leading to the third cell. Next are
three more cells grouped by the sides of a vaulted room
about 8 ft. 6 in. by 9 ft. 6 in.; but beyond this most of the
cells are almost destroyed.
The only ornamentation on these caves is the “ chaitya
window” over the doors and some of the windows as we
find it in the verandah at Bedsa (Woodcut No. 65), with three
curved lattices, and the terminal above is a circular knob. But
the door jambs, curiously enough, splay outwards or make
the openings widest above; they appear also to have been
fitted with wooden posts and lintels. Over the windows and
inside doorways only, the projecting horseshoe arch was carved,
whilst two of the principal doors had arched heads.
About a hundred yards south from these monks’ cells,
on the brow of the hill in which they are excavated, is a
circular cave, like that at Junnar (Woodcut 80, p. 158), con-
87. Fafade of Chaitya Cave at Guntupalle. (From a
Drawing by Mr. A. Rea.) Scale io ft. to i in.
taining a dagaba. This cave is 18 ft. in diameter and 14 ft.
9 in. high, and the drum of the dagaba is 3 ft. 9 in. high
with a diameter of 12 ft. at the floor; its dome is hemispherical
and of 4 ft. 7 in. radius. Upon it is left a knob, as if part
of the staff of an umbrella, but, perhaps, it is only a fragment
of the original capital which has been hewn away to convert
it into the Naiva Lingam for which it is now worshipped.
The dome of the roof is elliptical, rising 7 ft. 3 in. in the
centre, and is carved with sixteen radiating curved ribs on
which four concentric circular rafters are represented as resting.
At Junnar these were probably of wood, and have long ago