History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c19.s4.52

v1.c19.s4.52

The interest of this rath lies in the fact that it represented, on a small scale, the exterior of one of those chaitya halls, which form so important a feature in the western groups of Buddhist caves, of which, until the discovery of the Chezarla and Têr structures, we had no other instance from which to judge of what the external appearance may have been of the structural chaityas, from which the cave-temple examples were copied. But this rath being in several storeys, and the whole so conventionalised by the different uses to which they are applied for the purposes of a different religion, that we must not stretch analogies too far.²