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 183 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. Ajanta and elsewhere ; one at Bagh, in Malwa, measuring 82 ft. by 80, represented in the woodcut (No. 100), has, besides the ordinary comple- ment, four additional pillars in the centre; these were intro- duced evidently in consequence of the rock not being sufficiently homo- geneous and perfect to support itself without this addi- tional precaution ; and there is a Jaina cave at Dharasimva in the Dekhan, which has, in the centre, a square of twelve additional pillars. 1 These which might be classed, according to the ioo. Cave 3 at B^gh. (From a Plan by the Editor.) terms Used in Greek Scale 50 ft. to i in. architecture, as a style, when having no pillars ; distyle, when with two pillars in each face ; tetrastyle, with four; and hexastyle with six form the lead- ing and most character- istic division of these excavations, and with slight modification are to be found in all the later series. The forms, however, of many are so various and so abnormal that it would require a far more extended classification to enable us to describe and include them all. In many instances the great depth of the cave which this square arrangement required 1 'Cave Temples,' pp. 5036. and plate 93; 'Archaeological Survey of Western India,' vol. iii. pp. 4-9, and plate 2. rot. Darbar Cave, Salsette. (From a Plan by Mr. A. A. West.) Scale 50 ft. to i in.