1865.] Notes on Boodh Gya. 283 
Boodha, which was on the “ Singhasun” or throne to the west, and 
thus lighted the building dimly from over the entrance door-way, 
as I have observed to be the case in other ancient Buddhist edifices 
and which has also been remarked upon by Fergusson. 
We now approach the arches and arched chambers which have led 
me to put pen to paper. 
In what must have originally been the thickness of the terrace, or 
what was a projecting porch ere the terrace was raised, we find a 
ruined pointed arched chamber built with bricks set on edge, the said 
bricks having been carefully dressed. Their size 153” & 102” x 38”. 
This must evidently have been built round a 
3% centering of some kind. The diameter of the 
arch is 13} feet and the marginal sketch shews 
one of the bricks taken from the haunch of the 
74. 15. broken arch. 
This porch is at present entered by a square 
door-way built of odd stones, with a long stone 
o/4 serving as an architrave. 
Immediately on entering, there are to the right 
and left small door-ways covered with semicircular arches in stone, 
under which there is a flight of steps leading to the terrace above. 
These arches are built radiating and of regular “ voussoirs” or trun- 
cated wedges, and are manifestly of far more recent date than the rest 
of the building. In fact they would appear to have been built at the 
same time as the structure called by Genl. Cunningham Amara 
Sinha’s archway, 
This archway is evidently the entry to the modern, courtyard 
before the great tower, and runs east and west. 
It is built of somewhat smaller bricks than are elsewhere used, set 
on edge and without any special facing. Its depth, as far as my 
memory serves, is about 12 feet, and it looks quite modern, 
On the top of the flight of steps to the left (or south) is another 
archway similar to the one below it, and 
dating probably with the terrace to 
which it leads. 
In the base of the tower is an arched 
room, approached from the ruined arched 
36 


