Be. IX. Cu. VI. ROCK-CUT CHURCHES. 479 with hardly any decoration on its walls, but having in the centre a choir with four ijillars on each face, which there seems no doubt was originally devoted to Christian purposes. The cross on the low screen that separates it from the nave is too deeply cut and too evidently integral to have been added. But for this it would seem to have been intended for a Buddliist vihara. 935. Cave of Iiikermaii. (From Dubois de Montpei-eux.) Under the fortress at Inkennan army — there is an excavation un- doubtedly of Christian origin. It is a small cliurch with side-aisles, apse, and all the necessary ac- companiments. Beyond this is a square excavation apparently intended as a refectory, and other apartments devoted to the use of a monastic establishment. These again are so like what we find among the Buddhist excavations in India as to be quite startling. The one point in which this church differs from a Buddhist chaitya is that the aisle does not run round behind the altar. This is universally the case in Buddhist, but only exceptionally so in Christian, chui'ches. Close to Sebastopol is another small church cave with its ac- companying monastery. This one is said to be comparatively modern, and if its paintings are parts of the original design it may be so, but no certain data are — facing the position held by our n t^ '--■■» » i ^ it -^ 936. Rock-cut Church at Inkennan. (From iJubois de Montpereux.) 937. View in Church Cave, near SebastopoL en for fixing the age of the last giv
