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21. Not far from here, about a mile or more by road, Is another 

 group of hills of the same material. Here there are three more caves 

 which form the Narjarjtini group. The Gopi cave is very picturesquely 

 situated some seventy feet above the plain. It is a large vaulted 

 chamber, nearly fifty feet long. Both ends are circular. It is ap- 

 proached by a flight of stone stairs, but a small crenelated brick wall 

 completely hides the door. Masses of granite boulders are fantastically 

 piled up over the cave roof. 1 am sorry to say I did not obtain a photo- 

 graph of tliis very picturesque spot owing to the failure of my ap- 

 paratus — it had been too much in the hands of coolies of late. 



22. The following list particularises the seven Magadha caves : — 

 The Barabar caves. 1, 2 and 3 dedicated by Raja Piyadasi — 



J. Sndama cave. [The Nyagrodha or Banian tree] 33 feet x 19; 

 vaulted, 12^ feet high. Inner domed chapel : 18 feet in 

 diameter: two lines of inscription record its gift to men- 

 dicants. 251 B. C. 



2. Viswa-Jhopri. Vestibule 14 x 8J x 6| high. Inner circular 



chapel, irregular, 11 feet diameter at its widest. 251 B.C. 



3. Karna-chopar (on the north side of the rock), 33| feet X 14 ; 



vaulted, lOJ feet high. Single room. 244 B.C. 



4. Lomas Rishi cave, The same dimension as the Sudama cave ; 



unfinished ceiling and floor, domed chapel unfinished. No 

 Asoka inscription. 

 The Nagarjuni caves. Dedicated by Raja Dasaratha, a grandson of 

 Asoka, in the year 218 B.C. — 



5. Gopika (or milkmaid's cave). Single chamber 46 feet 5 



inchesf x 19 feet 2 inches. Vaulted, 10 feet 6 inches high 

 with circular ends. 



6. Vapiya cave. Vestibule 6 feet x 3 feet x 5J high, room 16J 



feet X 11 J and lOJ feet high, vaulted. So named from a 

 well near by. 



7. Vadhathika khnhha. Is in a cleft of the Vapiya rock, west of 



the cave. It is a small chamber with a narrow entrance. 

 Inside, a small brick partition has been built with a very 

 narrow entrance. 



23. Completing the work at ray Barahar camp, I return to Gaya, 

 and an opportunity presenting, I took what spare plaster there was to 

 Bodh Gaya, and took moulds of some objects of allied interest — an 

 insciiption on the altar, its honeysuckle and goose ornament, a quadrant 

 of the Vajrdsan, or adamantine throne, and of a quadriga chariot of the 

 sun on one of the pillars now in the Mahanth's house. 



24. I was also able to secure a photograph of the temple with a 



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