Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v3.c12.18

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² The pillars are octagonal in form and rise to a height of 14 ft. from the floor. The entablature has a height of 9 ft. 6 in. above the pillars, and the vault of the roof rises 12 ft. 6 in. higher still. The pillars, like their prototypes in other early caves of Western India, do not rise perpendicularly, but have an inward lean in imitation of the posts of bamboo-structures, to stop the thrust of the curvilinear roof.