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 CHAP. V. KARLE. details : we have also later inscriptions, of Ushabhadata, the son- in-law of the Kshatrapa Nahapana, 1 and, as the latter belongs to the beginning of the 2nd century, Ushabhadata cannot be placed earlier than about A.D. 120. But the cave had been completed long before this, and we may pretty safely place it in the century B.C., and possibly early in that century. 67-68. Section and Plan of Chaitya Cave at Karle. Scale 50 ft. to i in. The building, as will be seen by the annexed woodcuts (Nos. 67, 68, 69), resembles, to a very great extent, an early Christian church in its arrangements : consisting of a nave and side-aisles, terminating in an apse or semidome, round which the aisle is carried. The general dimensions of the interior are 124 ft. 3 in. from the entrance to the back wall, by 45 ft. 6 in. in width. The side-aisles, however, are very much narrower than in Christian churches, the central one being 25 ft. 7 in., so that the others are only 10 ft. wide, including the thickness of the pillars. As a scale for comparison, it may be mentioned that its arrangement and dimensions are very similar to those of the choir of Norwich Cathedral, or 1 For the K&rle inscriptions, see ' Archaeological Survey of Western India,' vol. iv. pp. 90-92, 112-113 ; ' Epigraphia Indica,' vol. vii. pp. 47ff.