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Cave 11 at the Bedse Caves is a fairly small 1st-century vihara, with nine cells in the interior and originally four around the entrance, and no shrine room. It is distinguished by elaborate gavaksha and railing relief carving around the cell-doors, but especially by having a rounded roof and apsidal far end, like a chaitya hall. [22]
Cave No. 3 is a large vihara or monastery with some interesting sculptures. Cave No. 10 is also a vihara and almost identical in design to Cave No. 3, but is much older and finer in detail. It is thought to be nearly as old as the Karla Cave near Lonavala. Cave No. 18 is a chaitya worship hall believed to be similar in date to the Karla Caves ...
Cave 18 Inside of a vihara in Lenyadri. Cave 18 is a dining hall with a front wall and a grooved doorway, on either side of which are windows. A bench runs along the back and side walls. The passage to the hall has 3 broken steps and an open court in the front. A cistern is located to the left of the court. [3] Cave 19
Other caves in the area are Karla Caves, Patan Buddhist Cave and Nasik Caves. There are two main caves. The best known cave is the chaitya (prayer hall - Cave 7) with a comparatively large stupa, the other cave is the monastery or vihara (Cave 11). They are marked by a profusion of decorative gavaksha or chaitya arch motifs. [3]
It is not a Vihara in the ordinary sense of the term, though it has some cells, but a Dharmasala or place of assembly, and is the only cave now known to exist that enables us to realise the arrangements of the great hall erected by Ajatashatru in front of the Sattapanni Cave at Rajagriha, to accommodate the first convocation held immediately ...
This cave is facing towards northern side 6 feet 8 inches wide and 25.5 feet deep, with 7 cells. Stone benches, square windows, stone beds—are observed in the cells. [1] Cave XV; It can be reached by stairs to the south of Cave XIV. It is a small vihara 12.5 wide and 10 feet deep. It has two semi-circular niches and a bench on right side. [1 ...
The vihara brick monastery facing the caves at Ajanta. The cells were built around a stupa set on a central platform. [108] A burnt-brick vihara monastery facing the caves on the right bank of the river Waghora has been recently excavated. [108] [109] It has a number of cells facing a central courtyard, in which a stupa was established.
The Kurudana Gangathilaka Vihara, dagoba and antiques situated close to Kirindi Oya [8] Ganulpotha Purana Vihara: No. 127-Kolonwinna: Monaragala: 6 June 2008: The cave vihare, drip-ledged caves, cave with Brahmi lettering, dagoba, row of steps, watapatha flower plant, stone slabs with royal figure and lamp holes [4] Gonsarudawa archaeological ...