LOWER PART OF FAÇADE OF CHAITYA No. 19.—AJUNTA.
ON the left of the entrance, as you look towards it, Buddha is represented standing in the usual attitude of exposition. In the next compartment he is seated cross-legged over a shrine, in the front of which is another figure of himself standing under a very rich canopy. Beyond these are repetitions of the same two figures as bounded the composition in the last view, but in this position they are apparently in the same style of art as the central compartments, and range much better with the architectural composition than they do on the other side. Beyond, on the extreme left, is seen the commencement of the Hindoo shrine described further on as No. 33.
The two pillars which support the porch, and the pilasters which separate these various sculptured groups, are all covered with the most elaborate ornamentation, as delicate in execution as any found at Ajunta, and generally in better preservation than such sculptures usually are in positions equally exposed.
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