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426 426 BYZA.NTINE ARCHITECTURE. Part H. have appeared weak, and would have admitted rain ; but when shel- tered by a screen of pillars it was both convenient and artistic. 855. Apse of Church ;it Kalb 1.1 luztli. iFii>iiiJ)e Vogiie.) This mode of lighting is better illustrated at Babouda, where it is employed in its simplest form. No light is admitted to the chapel except through one great semi-circular window over the entrance, and this is protected externally by a screen of columns. This mode of introducing light, as we shall afterwards see, was common in India at this age, and earlier, all the Chaitya caves being lighted in the same manner; and for artistic effect it is equal, if not superior, to any other which has yet been invented. The light bou.ia*'^*scaie^50 '^^ ^^^S^^i ^^^ behind the worshipper, and thrown ft. to 1 in. direct on the altar, or princi))al part of the church. In very large buildings it could hardly be applied, but for smaller ones it is singularly effective. 8o(J