Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c19.39

c19.39

simple design of the stupa, and the treatment of the apse triforium. With regard to the stupa, this resembles the relatively low and plain examples of the Hinayana type, such as at Karli and others of the same period. The mural pattern on the triforium is singularly characteristic of the early phase, as it consists of an arcading of narrow arched panels of a kind which is one of the distinguishing features of the preceding style. Moreover there are other circumstances, such as the rib-vaulting of the roof, and the plainness of the interior as a whole, all suggestive of the earlier movement. It is not impossible therefore that this chaitya hall was an ancient production, with which was its accompanying and contemporary vihara, the latter, however, having been re-cut and elaborated into one of the later examples, on the revival of the creed at a subsequent date.