Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . heir chronological relation cor-responding in the main to their locaHty, in the orderof Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain. Of the Buddhistseries the cave which bears the name Dherwara isthe oldest and one of the most important; one other,the Vishmakarma or Carpenters Cave,^ is a paral-lelogram about 85 feet long, with a ribbed roof; anda third, the Tin Tai, is three stories in height. Tome the most interesting thing in these oldest of theBuddhistic caves was the posture of
Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . heir chronological relation cor-responding in the main to their locaHty, in the orderof Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain. Of the Buddhistseries the cave which bears the name Dherwara isthe oldest and one of the most important; one other,the Vishmakarma or Carpenters Cave,^ is a paral-lelogram about 85 feet long, with a ribbed roof; anda third, the Tin Tai, is three stories in height. Tome the most interesting thing in these oldest of theBuddhistic caves was the posture of the effigies ofBuddha. He is not represented as seated in his cus-tomary posture but with both legs hanging downfrom the chair. Of the Hindu series the most noteworthy, and in-deed the most wonderful of all rock-temples, or evenof architectural remains, in all India, is Kailas,—astructure at the sight of which ones amazementgrows with every moment spent in its inspection. Itis not a mere interior chamber cut in the rock, saysMr. Fergusson, but is a model of a complete templesuch as might have been erected on the plain. In. MOST WONDERFUL OF ALL ROCK-TEMPLES The Caves of Ellora 209 other words, the rock has been cut away externallyas well as internally. Kailas is, then, an enormousmonolith, a huge temple completely isolated from thesurrounding rock of the hillside, itself made out ofone unbroken piece of stone. From the solid rocksurrounding this monolithic temple an enormouscourt has been excavated for it, which averages 154<ft. wide at the base, and is 276 ft. long at the levelof the base, and with a scarp at the back 107 On the outside of the curtain of rock whichhas been left in front of this court, are carved mon-strous forms of Shiva and Vishnu and other Hindugods; and several rooms are excavated inside itsthickness. This rock-screen is pierced in the centerby a passage which also has rooms excavated oneither hand. The front portion of the court is some-what
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