Cave XXIV. was intended for a pillared vihara 73 feet 3 inches by 75 feet, but only one column of the front aisle has been finished inside, the pillars in the back and side rows being only roughly blocked out. The verandah had six pillars; and the bracket capitals still hang from the entablature, the groups on them being carved in the best style of workmanship. In two of the capitals, and in those of the chapel at the end of the verandah, the corners are left above the torus, and are wrought into pendant scroll leaf ornaments, like Ionic volutes, a feature so marked in all subsequent Indian architecture. The work on the doors and windows is not so elaborate as on the pillars of the verandah; the frieze also is too narrow and all the members are too compressed. On the lintel are six vidyadharas bearing a tiara over the centre of the door. As the interior is only finished in part, the cave is probably one of the latest excavated, and may be assumed to belong to the second half of the seventh century.