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 CHAP. VI. AJANTA VIHARAS. J 95 The woodcut No. 112, from a photograph of one of the pillars of the verandah of Cave I, may help to illustrate the mode in which decoration is applied to them. The square base changes into an octagon, but the passage from the 112. Pillar in the erandah of Cave i, Ajanta. (From a Photograph.) one to the other is broken by four little dwarf figures, who reappear on the capital for the same purpose. Above the octagon the shaft is adorned with spiral flutes of singularly pleasing design, bound together with bands of jewelled orna-