Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...only in the wings being more widened: it is inserted here for comparison. No. 4 is from Cave 59 at Kanheri, and instead of having a short flute in the centre it is hollowed out into a shallow flat-bottomed depression. No. 5 is very similar and is from Cave 37. No. 6 is also like the preceding two but has the wings more widened out: it is from Cave 50. No. 7, from Cave 64, has two flutes in the centre. No. 8, from Cave 29, has the bottoms of the flutes more squared out. No. 9, from Cave 35, introduces additional curves above and below the neck, being a duplication of the original pattern. 1 From the notes, &c., of the Messrs. West. 3 The second half of this plate has been marked by mistake "Junnar." Though some of the patterns are also found at Junnar all the examples, except No. 3, here given are from the Kanheri caves. Nos. 10, 11, and 12, from Caves. 76, 51, and 69 respectively, are stiffer and ruder forms of the same pattern. The third of these plates is a careful drawing to a scale of half an inch to the foot of one of the unfinished columns in front of the verandah in Cave No. 1, --the unfinished Chaitya. It is evidently of a much later date than any of the preceding examples.1 1.--Copper-plate Inscription. A copper-plate was found at Kanheri by Dr. James Bird in 1839. The following is his own account of the discovery8: --"Immediately in front of the large arched cave, and on a ledge of the mountain, some thirty or forty feet below, there are several small Thopas, or monumental receptacles for the bones of a Buddha, or Rahat, built of cut stone at the base. These were once of a pyramidal shape, but are now much dilapidated, and appear like a heap of stones. Several years ago I thought of opening some of them, in expectation of obtainin...