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 ao8 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. across the top, having its frieze sculptured with a horseman at the gallop, parts of a large plant being shown as beyond the horse (represented in 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society' 1907, plate 3, fig. 4). In the Patna example a honeysuckle or similar plant occupies the area, and the whole form is more elegant and classical in feeling. (Waddell, ' Report on Excavations at Pataliputra,' p. 40 and plate 2.) Both capitals belong to the same order and must be of about the same age; but they differ so essentially from anything we know to be of the age of Aroka, and are so refined and classical in taste that, viewed in connection with the remains found at Jamalgarhi and elsewhere, they seem, more probably, to belong to the period about the commencement of our era, when Hellenic influence in architecture was strongest. fn^ra, p. 215. 118. Capital in Side Chapel of Cave xix., at Ajanta.