Identifier: handbooktravelle00john Title: A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . Year: 1911 ( 1910s) Authors: John Murray (Firm) Subjects: India -- Guidebooks Burma -- Guidebooks Sri Lanka -- Guidebooks Publisher: London : J. Murray Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, & Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: the goddess Saraswati on the S. wallof the antechamber deserves notice.Beyond it is yet a third hall measur-ing 27 ft. b)- 29 ft., wi;h three cells onthe E. and N. sides. No. 9 lies inthe N.W. angle beyond the thirdhall, and is reached from the centralhall of No. 6 ; it has a well-carvedfafade. No. 7, to which the stairs in

Text Appearing After Image: The Mahawara Dherwara Cave. arrangement it has been conjecturedthat this cave was a Hall of Assembly.No. 6, to the N. of No. 5, is reachedthrough a lower hall with three cellson the E. side; it measures 26^ ft.by 43 ft., and has an antechamberand shrine at the back of it, theformer richly carved and the lattercontaining a large seated Buddha.The figure on a stone at the foot of The Kailasa Temple. the first hall of No. 6 lead, is a largevihara, 51^ ft. by 43^ ft., supportedby four columns only. No. 8 isentered from this, and is a hallmeasuring 28 ft. by 25 ft., with threecells on the north side, a shrinewith a passage round it, and a seatedimage of Buddha in it, and a smallerhall on the W. side. On the face ofthe rock by this is a group of the 76 ROUTE 6. MANMAR TO SECUNDERABAD India child Buddha with his mother andfather. The next excavation, No. 10,is the only Chaitya or chapel cave ofthe group, and lies some way to theN. It is known as the Viswakamaor Carpenters cave, and is consid

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