The University of Nalanda c17.38

c17.38

There are numerous votive stūpas all scattered about the main stūpa. Some of them are decorated with the stucco figures of Buddha and Avalokiteśvara etc. "One of these little votive stūpas is of unusual interest; attached to it, on the east face, is a little porch-like shrine containing fragments of a very kacchā stucco image, and this little shrine is roofed over with a perfect little barrel-vault in brick." Pre-Mohammedan certainly as it is, it is a beautiful example of a Hindu-vault of arch construction.³