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 428 FURTHER INDIA. BOOK VIII. simulate an arch, though using the pointed-arched forms of the old chaitya caves of the west. The two systems are well exemplified in the following woodcut (No. 481), but it runs 481. View of Central Entrance and Stairs at Boro-Budur. (From a Lithographic Plate. throughout. All the niches are surmounted by arch forms circular, elliptical, or pointed but all are constructed horizontally, and it may be added that, in nine cases out of