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 CHAP. V. WESTERN CHAITYA HALLS. 161 examples. We can still trace a reminiscence of it in the upper part of the window in the centre (Woodcut No. 83) ; but it was evidently considered necessary, in this instance, to reduce the size of the opening, and it is easy to see why 83. Fafade of the Ymvakarma Cave at Eltira. (From a Photograph.) this was the case. At Bedsa, Karle, Kanheri, and elsewhere, there was a verandah or porch with a screen in front of the great window, which prevented the direct rays of the sun from reaching it, and all the older caves had wooden screens, as at Karle from which curtains could be hung so as to modify VOL. I. L