Vihara XII. is about the same age as the last; but the front, which perhaps contained a verandah, has fallen away. The hall, 36¼ feet square, has four cells on each of the three inner sides; and eleven of these have double beds with raised pillows. The sills and lintels of the doorways have holes for pivot hinges, and so have the jambs for fastenings. The ornaments consist of seven horse-shoe arches representing chaitya windows, four over the doorways and three over the niches between them. A string course with the Buddhist rail pattern runs below the arches; and the three cells on the right side also contain some ornament. A short inscription in three lines is seen to the left of one of the doors in the back wall. Apparently it records the gift of the cave by a bannia or trader.
