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 236 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. this among them, and in the i8th century it underwent a special restoration. The base is 9 ft. high, and the dome upon this is hemi- 132. Lankarama Dagaba (1870). (From a Photograph.) spherical and 38 ft. in diameter. The lower 4 ft. of the base has apparently been extended by an addition of varying breadth all round, which includes the innermost row of very graceful pillars. The second circle is 7 ft. 8 in. in advance of the first, and the third like the fourth at the Thuparama consists of more slender shafts only 12 ft. 5 in. high, and stands i6| ft. outside the second circle. These pillars are all monolithic the shaft and capital being in one piece. Those of the second circle stand 16 ft. 11 in. above the raised pavement on which the dagaba stands, the level of the heads of the inner circle being 5 in. higher. In both, the shafts are 133. Capital of Lankarama 1 3 - square to about a third of their pillars in the inner circles. 1 height, above which they are octagonal. Scale ^th. The ca pj ta i s (Woodcut No. 133) are 26| in. high and 2 ft. across at 6 in. below the top, from which they 1 From Smither's ' Anuradhapura,' plate 13, fig. i.