A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.153

c8.153

Broadly, the monastery consisted of a raised quadrangle, 288 feet north and south by 268 feet east and west, walled, with entrances at the cardinal points, enclosing a *dāgaba* [*stūpa*] and three *vihārēs* [temples], and having an open hall attached to the north. Outside this *temenos* was first a walk, then twelve annexes, evenly grouped, surrounded by a moat, with the chief *pansala* [monks’ residences], a bathing-house, and a few other buildings on the south and west; the whole covering an area of 12½ acres, bounded by a quadrangular wall of stone, 200 yards by 300 yards, traces of which may still be seen. From the lodge (*mura-gē*) a broad street led straight to the inner quadrangle.'¹