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Meaning of "chaitya"
chaitya (noun) - in Indian architecture, a chaitya is a Buddhist shrine or prayer hall with a stupa at one end
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- A Buddhist or Jain shrine including a stupa.
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Above the niche there is a stylised chaitya.
The chaitya window is ornamental all over cell doors.
Typical large sites contain several viharas for every chaitya.
The chaitya halls were monastic sanctuaries hewn out of rock.
The cell frontage is ornamented with chaitya window motifs above each door.
Chaitya hall temple.
This caves are also in Chaitya style.
The chaitya top.
The Tulaja cave in Junnar is also an excavation after the model of a circular chaitya.
The chaitya arch window frame is repeated several times as a decorative motif.
The dedicatory inscription of the Chaitya.
The façade of this chaitya is splendidly decorated with various carved figures and decorative motifs.
Regrets The chaitya.
The excavation of Dhando Chaitya uncovered a brick with an inscription in Brahmi script.
Inside, the hall is relieved following the chaitya window pattern.
See also
Chaitya Bhoomi gate and Ashoka pillar.
Also, two life size yaksha figures are sculpted on either side of the chaitya arch.
The chaitya which Fundain Sesshu temple.
The caves include three Buddhist caves, one is a chaitya and two are viharas.
Valuka Chaitya the stupa.
All right, it says your on chaitya road.
The chaitya has on its outer face the dedicatory inscription of a merchant,.
A famous rock-cut monastery in Ajanta consists of several Chaitya halls and numerous residential Viharas.
The chaitya once had a high screen wall, which is ruined at present.
It says you are on Chaitya Road, All right.
The chaitya follows the usual pattern for the period, but is unusually large.
Buddhist monks praying in front of the Dagoba of Chaitya Cave 26 of the Ajanta Caves.
Sarvatobhadra chaitya votive stupas, symbolically representing the miracle of lord Buddha.
The monastery was once home to two 15-meter grand pillars outside the chaitya.
The caves also contain three chaitya grihas, which possess apsidal walls and flat ceilings.
Stupas originated as pre-Buddhist tumuli, in which ascetics were buried in a seated position, called chaitya.
The remains of another chaitya noticed near Vidyadharapuram, near Vijayawada, are of like nature.
This has also an inscription below it, calling it ' Bahuputm - chaitya of Vaisali.
The circular chaitya is brick - built.
Most of the caves are Viharas except for the 18th cave which is a Chaitya.
Cave 7, the chaitya hall, is reached by a long narrow passage into the rock.
Most caves are viharas and cells for monks, but Cave 9 of south-eastern group is chaitya.
The apsidal Guntupalle chaitya ( second century AD ) is wholly brick - built.
Conversely, the architecture of Cave No.3 is very similar to that of the Kanheri Chaitya.
Cave 9, an early chaitya hall, with murals surviving, and plain octagonal columns.
They are marked by a profusion of decorative gavaksha or chaitya arch motifs . [ 3 ].
It says your on Chaitya road, and that you are 500 feet up in the air.
A slightly late imitation of the Great Chaitya at Karla Caves . [ 1 ].
Babasaheb Ambedkar 's tomb Chaitya Bhoomi memorial work was completed by Yashwant Ambedkar 's efforts . [ 21 ].
