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churches from the
Early Medieval period,
though early chaityas are many
centuries earlier.
Chaityas appear at the same
sites like the vihara, a strongly...
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Chaitya Bhoomi, also
written as Chaityabhoomi, (IAST: Caityabhūmī, Officially: Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar Chaityabhoomi Memorial) is a
Buddhist chaitya and...
- The
chaitya hall only
survives in rock-cut examples, but
these replicate in
stone the form of
examples in wood and thatch. In most rock-cut
chaityas, the...
- living, studying, and meditating. The
larger caves,
which functioned as
chaityas, or
halls for
congregational worship, are
lined with
intricately carved...
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surrounded by oceans,
lesser mountains and a huge wall. A
Chaitya,
Chaitya hall or
Chaitya-griha
refers to a shrine, sanctuary,
temple or
prayer hall...
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caves generally followed an
apsidal plan with a
stupa in the back for the
chaityas, and a
rectangular plan with
surrounding cells for the viharas. When Buddhist...
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Kathesimbhu stupa or
Kashi Swayambhu. The main
stupa is
surrounded by
smaller chaityas inscriptions,
statutes and an
ancient cloister similar to
Tibetan monastery...
- murals, each
depicting a
different aspect of the Buddha's life. Four
small chaityas (stupas) are
located inside the
larger hollow stupa and on the
walls of...
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south and are
numbered serially from east to west.
Caves 6 and 14 are
chaitya-grihas (chapels),
while the rest are
viharas (dwellings for monks). The...
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suggest that the two
viharas cannot be very
distant in date from the two
Chaityas. One long
inscription (inscription No.2) in the 19th year of Satavahana...
