. Architecture, classic and early Christian . wooden forms. In the doorway the stone piers slopeinwards, just like raking wooden struts, and the upperpart represents the ends of longitudinal rafters support-ing a roof. Later on the builders emancipated them-selves to a certain extent from this seivile adhesion toolder forms, and Fig. 40 gives a plan and section of alater chaitya at Ivarli, near Pooua. This bears a striking-resemblance to a Christian basilica: * there is first the fore-court; then a rectangular space divided by columns intonave and aisles, and terminated by a semicircular apse.
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . wooden forms. In the doorway the stone piers slopeinwards, just like raking wooden struts, and the upperpart represents the ends of longitudinal rafters support-ing a roof. Later on the builders emancipated them-selves to a certain extent from this seivile adhesion toolder forms, and Fig. 40 gives a plan and section of alater chaitya at Ivarli, near Pooua. This bears a striking-resemblance to a Christian basilica: * there is first the fore-court; then a rectangular space divided by columns intonave and aisles, and terminated by a semicircular apse. * See Chap. X. for an illustration of a Christian Basilica. F 2 G8 ORIENTAL jSRCHITECTUIIK. The nave is 25 ft. 7 in. wide, and the aisles 10 ft. each;the total length is 126 ft. Fifteen columns seijarate thenave from the aisles, and these have bases, octagonal shafts,and rich capitals. Eound the apse the columns are replacedby piers. The side aisles have flat roofs, and the centralnave a stilted semicircular one, practically a vault, ivhich. Fig. 40.—Chaitya near Poona. at the apse becomes a semicircular dome, under whichis the dagoba, the symbol of Buddhism. The screen,separating the forecourt from the temple itself is richlyornamented with sculpture. The older viharas or monasteries were also cut in the rock(Figs. 41, 42), and were divided into cells or chambers; INDIAN. 6D tliey wore sevfral storr-ys in heip;ht, and it is pmhaLle thatthe cells wei-e used by devout Buddhists as habitations forthe purposes of meditation. Amonf^ the most remarkable, and in fact almost unique
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