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 CHAP. I. PAGAN. 361 Internally, the building is extremely solid, being intersected only by two narrow parallel corridors ; but in rear of each projecting transept is a niche artificially lighted from above, in which stands a statue of Buddha more than 30 ft. in height. This is the arrangement we find in the Chaumukh temple at Palitana and at Ranpur (Woodcut No. 288), both Jaina temples of the 1 5th and I7th centuries, and which it is consequently rather surprising to find here as early as the nth century (A.D. 1066) ; but the form and the whole of the arrangement 451- Plan 01 Ananda Temple. (From Yule.) Scale 100 ft. to i in. of these temples are so unlike what we find elsewhere that we must be prepared for any amount of anomalies. The plan of the Dhammayangyi built at Pagan by Narathu in 1160 A.D. is almost identical with the Ananda, but slightly larger, measuring 292 ft. across each way. With the exception of a deep recess facing the entrance in which the statue of Buddha is placed, the inner corridor has been bricked up. The other three statues are brought forward into the vestibules of the other three transepts. Great similarities exist also in the design, there being two ranges of windows on the ground storey, one above the other, as in the Ananda. The roof con- sists of five storeys set back one behind the other, but being all of the same heigjit are very monotonous in effect, and are very inferior to the Ananda roof, where the three upper storeys of