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the outer appartment, but apparently merely for the purpose of ornament. 
The roof was generally covered with brick and probably surmounted by a low 
cupola or turret of the same material. The lintels, &c., of the doorway were 
generally composed of basalt slabs, rudely carved with a bold geometrical 
pattern, having one or more figures of Buddha in the centre. The brick 
work appears uniformly to have been plain, but remarkably uniform, 
the outside edges being reduced to a level by the chisel. As an illus- 
tration of the older type of Buddhist temple I may mention the large 
one discovered by me in the side of the Baibhar hill at Uajgir. A 
great number of the pillars are literally imbedded in the brickwork of 
the wall. This feature is also observable in the excavated building at 
the Nirmal-kund, and the series of temples at Daptliu. The more modern 
temples present a striking contrast to the more ancient ones. The walls 
of these buildings were adorned with the most exquisitely moulded brick 
work ; the facade was lavishly ornamented with pillared vestibules, and the 
richest sculptures which art could produce ; the roof was crowned with a 
majestic spire or cupola abounding in profuse decoration in brick, plaster, 
and basalt ; and the doors and windows were surrounded with bands of 
lace-like carving. The excavated temple at Bargiion affordsk a striking exam- 
ple of the religious architecture of the Buddhists from 450 A. D. to 900 
A. D. I extract a description of it from the pamphlet I have already written 
on the subject. 
‘ liaised a few feet above the plain was an evenly paved court, as near as 
possible one hundred feet square. This court was surrounded by halls and 
buildings of every description on all sides except *the eastern, and these 
doubtless served as the dwelling-places, refectory, &c., of the recluses of the 
convent. In the centre of the court rose an enormous temple, eighty feet 
long at the base on each side, and consisting of a series of several stories 
tapering to a point, each about fourteen feet above the other. The main 
fabric was composed of enormous bricks, each about one foot three inches in 
length, three inches thick, and ten inches wide, placed so close together that 
the cement which joined them is barely visible. The first two stories of the 
building were uncovered, and are now almost as perfect as when Hwen 
Thsang saw them fourteen hundred years ago. In order to preserve every 
detail in describing this remarkable building, we will take it side by side. 
The great entrance was towards the east (a custom still observed in the 
construction of the Buddhist temples of Tibbat), and was faced by a terrace 
of stone fifty feet in length and composed of two rows of sandstone slabs, 
the first decorated by a simple triangle in the centre, the second carved with 
a very beautiful geometrical pattern. These stones vary in length from 
seven to three feet, and are as near as possible a foot square. In the centre 
of this ten-ace, which is about six feet in front of the main building, is a 
