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140 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. 65- View on Verandah of Cave at Bedsa. (From a Photograph.) The next of these early caves is the chaitya at Nasik. Its pillars internally are so nearly perpendicular that their inclina- tion might escape detection, and the door jambs are nearly parallel. The facade, as seen in the woodcut (No. 66, p. 141), is a very perfect and complete design, but all its details are copied from wooden forms, and nothing was executed in wood in this