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AN EARLY HISTORY OF ORISSA
PLATE V 25. (a) SVARGAPURI CAVE_Consists of the upper storey.
It consists of a benched verandah opening into a long room in front and a side room on the right. It has lost greater part of its roof. Tha arches are relieved, as usual, with floral designs and the pilasters are characteristically ornamented. It contains an inscription of three lines recording that the cave was got excavated by the Chief Queen of Khāravela. (b) MAÑCHAPURI CAVE-Consists of the lower storey,
It consists of a main wing comprising a side chamber and two back chambers to east and a right wing with one chamber to south. The verandahs in front of the main and right wings have each figures of two guards sculptured at the ends. It contains two small inscriptions mentioning two princes Kudepasiri and Vadukha.
The front face of the rock forming the roof of the main verandah is decorated with a procession of elephants and other figures below and with a railing above—the uprights of the railing being decorated with half lotuses in the lower and the upper and medallions and floral and other designs in the central ones. These carvings are now almost entirely obli
terated owing to the action of the weather. 26. MANCHAPURI CAVE-View of the inner bracket of a pillar in the main verandah.
Two yakshas riding over two rampant horses. The second horse with yaksha is not very clearly visible in the photograph.
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