The chapel in chamber 8 is smaller then the adjoining cells, and must
have been designed in the first instance for the reception of images.
Originally, there appear to have been thirteen figures in it, of
which remnants of eight have been preserved.All are composed of clay
and all the figure were too numerous and too bulky for the heat to
penetrate through them, and as a consequence they are not so well
preserved as in the alcoves of the open verandia.At the time of
excavtion some figure were in some what recognizable condition, such-as
one of the figures aganist the east wall was Maitreya holding a
flask in his left hand but due to future dacay after exposure, their
faint features have been disappeared leaving only inner core of the
sculptures.The clay casing of the door-frame was decorated with foliate
designs consisting, apparently, of a meander pattern relieved by
half-lotuese.
