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EPRESENTS the upper part of the façade, the lower or entrance part of which was shown in the last view. It shows the same general arrangement as the first Cave described; but, as will be observed, the purely wooden decorations have become considerably modified in the course of time. The niches and little semicircular canopies have lost so much of their wooden origin that, if they could not be traced back, their derivation would hardly be suspected. The wooden forms, however, still remain the same on the inner face of the great arch, and in the overhanging part of the rock which crowns the façade. This shows the same beam and rafter arrangement as the verandah of the last Vihara described, and is, indeed, universal throughout India. 23