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The Buddhist monuments at the top of the uppermost stratum comprise an open quadrangle with a lofty tope in its middle and rows of monastic buildings enclosing it on the four sides. These monuments, including the tope, courtyard, and surrounding monastery, are stated to have been many times repaired or rebuilt 'on each occasion at a successively higher level. Thus the original pavement of the courtyard was 20 feet below the bottom of the *stūpa* drum, or 44 feet approximately above the level of the plain (and 199 feet above the mean sea-level). The next floor was 1 to 2 feet above it, and then followed a succession of at least three more floors, the last nearly 6 feet higher than the original one.'¹