The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.190

c11.s1.190

II. — View of the northern staircase, where it leaves the first gallery : as far as the fourth it can still be perceived : then it is hidden from the view of the spectator standing at the foot of the building. On issuing from the fourth and last polygonal gallery, its slope, already much reduced, passes under the only ornamental gateway which to this day has remained intact. (Cf. p. 211.)