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 CHAP. V. CHAITYA AT ELURA. and Gane-ya Lena groups are four other small chaityas, with verandah pillars of the same Nasik type; 1 and in the latter 81. Round Temple and part of Palace or Monastery. (From a bas-relief at Bharaut.) series is one that may justly be regarded as the best example we have of the chaitya of the ist or 2nd century of our era. 2 Its proportions are good, and all the details well understood and properly applied. The vihara 3 near it, now converted into a Hindu shrine of Gane^a, measures 50^ ft. wide by 56^ ft. deep, without pillars, the facade of its verandah being almost a complete copy of that of the Gautamiputra cave (No. 3) at Nasik, with six pillars and two antae standing on a bench, the outside of which is carved with rail-pattern. ELtiRA. The celebrated VLrwakarma cave at Elura is a chaitya of the first class, intermediate, perhaps, in age between the two last described caves at Ajanta, or it may be as modern 1 The chaityas in the scarp of 5ivaner are No. 3 'Cave Temple,' p. 249, and pillar in ' Cave Temple Inscriptions,' plate 17; No. 51 'Cave Temples,' p. 251, plan and section, plate 18, figs. I, 2, and pillar in ' Cave Temple Inscriptions,' plate 19; and No. 69 'Archaeological Survey,' vol. iv. p. 30. The Ganera Lena example is No. 15 'Cave Temples,' pp. 256-257 and plan and section, plate 1 8, figs. 6, 7 ; and ' Archaeological Survey Western India,' vol. iv. p. 32, No. 15. 2 No. 6 for details see ' Cave Temples,' pp. 254-256, plan, plate 18, fig. 9 to scale 25 ft. to I in. , and section, fig. 10, to double that scale ; pillars in ' Cave Temple Inscriptions,' plate 29, p. 54 ; 'Archaeological Survey Western India,' vol. iv. p. 31. The other, also a vaulted chaitya here, is No. 32 ' Cave Temples,' pp. 257-258. 3 No. 7) ' Cave Temples,' p. 256.