Show i rI ls k g 1 4 jJ jJr r r 1 s 4 4 s V. V I t jF Jf i iNear I Near two hours' hours journey from Bombay Is a famous Buddhist cave temple hewn out of the solid soUd rock lock at Karll KarU In the Western Its architecture strangely resembles the Gothic This is considered one of ot the largest and most complete specimens off Buddhist In India land and nd Its excavation Is ascribed to the Maharajah B n. n C C. C 78 As one enters its cool dark recesses it strikes one as being not unlike a Christian church hurch In form torm consisting of a nave and side aisles terminating in an apse fifteen F n pillars separate the nave from the aisle and the capital of each is richly ornamented with the figures of two elephants bearing a man and anda a a woman or two female forms Under the semi semi dome dome and where the altar stands in our churches chuiches is the a like dome structure This was originally intended to hold relics and the outside was formerly ornamented and nd draped and surmounted with a huge wooden umbrella of at which little now now ow remains The interior of the cave is grand and solemn and the mode of of f lighting perfect an undivided volume of light coming through a single opening opening pening overhead and falling on the altar leaving the rest in comparative obscurity The entrance consists of three doorways and the whole end of ih the hall is open forming one great window of horseshoe shape |