chapel.There must have been some special reason for placing it where
it is and it's explanation maybe that on entring the monastery the
monks made a practice of paying their devotions, in passing, at the
chapel before going to their cells, and perhaps repeated the
devotions when leaving the monastery.
The stairs are divided into two flights,with six steps in the lower
and nine in the upper, and the passage-way which connected the
stairs with the upper veranda returns again at right angles to the
upper flight.Possibly there was a second chapel above the ground-
floor one, but more probably the latter occupied the full height of
both stories.It would have been contrary to Buddhist practice to
construct a cell for habitation over the holy images.
