array in the upper court, five in the lower and one in the western
court.In their essential features they are, as might be expected,
diminutive copies of the larger edifice, but they doffer from it in
the decoration and shape of their plinths, which were square in plan
insteas of oblong and usually enriched with more elaborate ornament.
In every case the core of these builddings is of rough rubble, faced
as a rule with soft kanjur stone in which the main features of the
decoration are blocked out and then finished off in lime syucco, the
details of the architectural members and the erliefs being modelled
throughout in stucco.Plinth of the stupa A 15 is faced with large
diaper masonry similar to the emploved in the older parts of the
main stupa and monastery, and it is likely that this is one of the
earliest among the small stupas, although it was redecorated at a
later age.The domes had in very case perished, but some remains of
the harmika and umbrellas with which they were crowned were found in
the debris of the courtyard.
The schems of decoration on the plinths of these stupas, although
as a rule richer and more intricate than that on the main structure.
