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296 ARCHITECTURE IN THE HIMALAYAS. BOOK II. tinued to be employed during the Middle Ages, though the examples have perished ; but it is curious to find it cropping up here again after a lapse of 2000 years. 1 1 It is found currently employed in the decorative sculpture of the Gandhara monasteries, but rarely as a constructive feature. See Foucher, ' L'Art Greco- Bouddhique du Gandhara,' tome i. pp. 107-108,
