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BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. richness of the sculpture on the pillars and triforium of this chaitya, and of the style of the interior, will be better conveyed by the accompanying woodcut, No. 77, than by any attempt at description. The pillars are much in the same style as 77- Pillars on the left side of the Nave, in Cave No. 26 at Ajanta. (From a Photograph.) those in Cave No. i, but even richer and more minute in detail, closely resembling those in No. 25, immediately pre- ceding it in position, if not also in age. The triforium, it will be observed, is overloaded with ornament, and thereby loses