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 74 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. The carvings round the niches and on the projections have been left so unfinished in some instances only outlined that it is impossible to guess what ultimate form it may have been intended to give them. The upper part of the tower was , ;;:;,; ^,; y ,.,.,., ,*. ^J^^^ '^"^-^^ la^s&Kgassg^^r^^r^:^---: &** .rS^T^ ^l^r^rJ::' " J "7""' T :; i"'- /" v> - 17- Panel on the Tope at Sarnath. (From a Photograph. ) possibly an addition of even later date than the lower part, and may never have been finished at all ; but from our knowledge of the Afghanistan topes we may surmise that it was intended to encircle it with a range of pilasters, and then some bold mouldings, before covering it with a hemispherical dome.