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scription records the dedication by Raja Pryadasi (that is, Asoka 
himself), in the 12th year of his reign of a Wigoha cave. The exca- 
vation of this cave therefore dates as far back as 252 B. C., the 
very same year in which many of Asoka’s edicts were promulgated, 
as recorded in his different inscriptions both on pillars and rocks. 
The cave itself consists of two chambers, of which the inner one is 
nearly circular with a hemispherical domed roof. This roof, which 
projects beyond the wall of the circular room into the outer apart- 
ment, is considerably under-cut, as if to represent a thatch with its 
overhanging eaves. ‘The circular room is 19 feet 11 inches in diame- 
ter from west to east, and 19 feet from north to south. The outer 
apartment is 32 feet 9 inches in length by 19 feet 6 inches in breadth. 
The walls are 6 feet 9 inches in height to the springing of the vaulted 
roof, which has a rise of 5 feet 6 inches, making the total height of 
the chamber 12 feet 3 inches. At the east end of this apartment 
there is a shallow recess which may have been intended as a niche 
for a statue, or more probably as an entrance to another projected 
chamber. But the work was abandoned soon after its commencement, 
and remains rough and unfinished, while all the rest of the cave, 
both roof and walls, is highly polished. 
114. The Lomas Rishi cave is similar to the Suddma cave, both as to 
the size and arrangement of its two chambers; but the whole of the 
interior of the circular room has been left rough, and both the floor 
and the roof of the outer apartment remain unfinished. The straight 
walls of this apartment are polished, but the outer wall of the 
circular room is only smoothed and not polished. The chisel marks 
are yet visible on the floor, while on the roof, which has only been 
partially hewn, the cuts of the chisels, both broad and narrow, are 
still sharp and distinct. The excavation of the roof would appear 
to have been abandoned, owing to the work having reached a deep 
fissure, which forms one of the natural lines of cleavage of the rock. 
115. The door-way of this cave is exactly of the same size and 
of the same Egyptian form as that of the Suddma cave, but 
the entrance porch has been much enlarged, and has been sculptured 
to represent what I believe to be the ornamental entrance of a 
wooden building. A tolerably faithful sketch of this entrance will 
be found in Buchanan (Eastern India, Vol. I. p. 104), but owing to 
the accumulation of rubbish at the time the sketch was taken, the 
