The Rock-cut Temples of India/The Caves of Ajunta/Interior of Verandah, Cave No. 4—Ajunta

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INTERIOR OF VERANDAH, CAVE No. 4.—AJUNTA.


THE verandah of this Cave is supported apparently by eight pillars in front; simple octagons with bracket capitals, but without bases, or any intermediate member to break the abruptness of the change between the capital and the shaft, but the whole is massive and plain, and consequently appropriate to Cave architecture; more so indeed than many of the more elaborate designs which are found in this as well in all the other groups of Caves, more especially among those so modern as this one evidently is.