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1 68 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. passage between them leading to the third cell. Next are three more cells grouped by the sides of a vaulted room about 8 ft. 6 in. by 9 ft 6 in. ; but beyond this most of the cells are almost destroyed. The only ornamentation on these caves is the "chaitya window" over the doors and some of the windows as we find it in the verandah at Bedsa (Woodcut No. 65), with three curved lattices, and the terminal above is a circular knob. But the door jambs, curiously enough, splay outwards or make the openings widest above ; they appear also to have been fitted with wooden posts and lintels. Over the windows and inside doorways only, the projecting horseshoe arch was carved, whilst two of the principal doors had arched heads. About a hundred yards south from these monks' cells, on the brow of the hill in which they are excavated, is a circular cave, like that at Junnar (Woodcut 80, p. 158), con- 87. Fa9ade of Chaitya Cave at Guntupalle. (From a Drawing by Mr. A. Rea. ) Scale 10 ft. to i in. taining a dagaba. This cave is 18 ft. in diameter and 14 ft. 9 in. high, and the drum of the dagaba is 3 ft. 9 in. high with a diameter of 12 ft. at the floor ; its dome is hemispherical and of 4 ft. 7 in. radius. Upon it is left a knob, as if part of the staff of an umbrella, but, perhaps, it is only a fragment of the original capital which has been hewn away to convert it into the Saiva Lingam for which it is now worshipped. The dome of the roof is elliptical, rising 7 ft. 3 in. in the centre, and is carved with sixteen radiating curved ribs on which four concentric circular rafters are represented as resting. At Junnar these were probably of wood, and have long ago