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 CHAP. V. WESTERN CHAITYA HALLS. 165 be felt in them is considerably diminished, by their being cut in a coarse laterite conglomerate, so coarse that all the finer architectural details had to be worked out in plaster, and that, having perished with time, only their plans and outlines can now be recognised. Among the sixty or seventy excavations here found, one in the principal group, which is entered from the east end of a broad terrace that still exists tolerably entire, has a dagaba in front 9^ ft. in diameter and 14 ft. 3 in. high standing in the centre of a small court, in the open air. Immediately behind it is the cell or sanctuary, in which is a large figure of Buddha seated cross-legged, and on each side of the entrance are two large dwarpals, as at Aurangabad. The cell is isolated by a covered passage running round it, on the Caves at Dhamnar. (Corrected from a Plan by Gen. Cunningham.) Scale 50 ft. to i in. east side of which is a recumbent figure of the dying Buddha, about 15 ft. long; in the passage behind the cell are three seated figures of Buddhas with smaller standing figures between ; and three more stand in the west passage with a sitting one (Woodcut No. 86). The next is an excavation 25 ft. wide with a curved inner-end the whole length being 26| ft and containing a circular dagaba 8i ft. in diameter and 16 ft. 3 in. high, which supports the roof. To the west of it is another chaitya cave of some extent, and presenting peculiarities of plan not found elsewhere. It is practically a chaitya cella situated in the midst of a vihara. The cell in which the dagaba is situated is only 31 ft. 8 in.