The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c17.18

c17.18

On the other side of the earliest group, or at the western tip of the moon’s crescent, are the monastic halls numbered I to VI, most of which belong to the seventh century, and right opposite to them, at the other extremity, is the fourth group, standing apart from the other three and facing the setting sun. This includes the vihâras or colleges numbered XX to XXV and the magnificent chaityahouse XXVI, which are the last and most elaborate of the four groups; some of them remained unfinished.