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Dehr Warra.

DEHR WARRA.

‘Plate XXIV. Plans H.’

‘The Hallalcore’s Quarter’. By this designation have the Brahmans, who describe them, thought proper to discriminate this group of caves, which, though making no conspicuous figure here, would render any other place illustrious. They, under this term of pollution, endeavour to deter visitors from entering it, though the large cave is a very fine one; over the front of which a river, in the rainy season, rushes into the plain below, forming a sheet of water, that, in a beautiful cascade, covers the front of the excavation as with a curtain of crystal. There are two stripes of stone that run parallel to each other along the floor, from the entrance, the whole depth of this cave, (the prospect from which, of the great tank, town, and valley of Ellora, &c. is beautiful,) and seem intended as seats either for students, scribes, or the sellers of some commodities, a convenient passage lying between them up to the Idol at the end of the cave. 1,1, stripes of stone running through the area of the temple. 2,2, apartments of the Idol, a sitting figure with curled hair, the soles of his feet are turned up. Numbers 3, dark rooms, which, like most others in these excavations, are very full of bats.