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134 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. called B6r Ghat. 4 miles There is 58. Chaitya Cave, Bhaja. (From a Plan by J. Burgess.) Scale 50 ft. to i in. south of the great Karle cave in the no inscription upon it, but from the plan (Woodcut No. 58), it will be perceived that it is a chaitya hall of the usual plan, but of no great dimen- sions, being only 60 ft. from the back of the apse to the mortices (a a), in which the supports of the wooden screen once stood. From the wood- cut (No. 60), it will be perceived that the pillars of the interior slope in- wards at a considerable and most un- pleasing angle. The rood - screen which closes the front of other caves of this class is gone, as it is also in the case of the Kondane and Pital- khora examples, and in Cave No. 10 at Ajanta. In other examples it is in stone, and consequently remains, but in those instances, where it was originally in wood, it has disappeared, though the holes to receive its posts and the mortices by which it was attached to the walls are still there. The ogee fronton was covered with wooden ornaments, which have disappeared ; though the pin- holes remain by which they were fastened to the stone. The framework, or truss, that filled the upper part of the great front opening, no longer exists, but what its appearance was may be judged of by the numerous representations of itself with which it is covered, or from the representation of a chaitya facade from the con- temporary rail at Bodh- Gaya (Woodcut No. 59). and there are several others on the rail at Bharaut, which are not 59. Front of a Chaitya Hall. (From a Bas-relief at Bodh-Gaya.) only correct elevations of such a facade as this, but represent the wooden carved ornaments which according to that authority invariably adorned these facades. The only existing example of this wooden screen is that at Karle, 1 but the innumerable 1 Little more than thirty years ago, the screen in Kondane chaitya cave was also tolerably entire. 'Archaeological Survey of Western India,' vol. iv., frontispiece,