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Grouped about the main *stūpa* in the courtyard there were several smaller *stūpas*. There are series of cells and other apartments on all the four sides of the courtyard, all built like the *stūpa*, of kiln-burnt brick laid in mud and gypsum, as many of the pre-historic buildings were. Sir John Marshall assumes ‘on the analogy of other monasteries of the Kushan period’ that ‘they (cells) possessed two storeys with a wooden verandah in front—facing inwards towards the courtyard—which would serve at once to shield them from the sun and provide access to the chambers on the upper floor. The roof would be carried on timbers and covered with mud, with a slight slope inwards towards the court.’²