Cave IX. is very much ruined, and the whole of the front has fallen. The hall was 85 feet by 19 feet; and there were three smaller halls at the back, each leading into a shrine. The first of these, 15 feet 4 inches by 13 feet 4 inches, has a sitting figure of Buddha. The second, 38 feet by 13 feet 10 inches, has female figures on both end walls and at the back corners, with vidyadhars over their heads. A Bodhisattva is on each side of the entrance to the antechamber which is 15 feet 2 inches between the pilasters. The shrine door has Naga guardians, only just begun; and behind them are fat squatting males. Inside the shrine is the head of Buddha roughly blocked out. The third hall, 14 feet 8 inches by 13 feet 6 inches, has Buddha on the left side, seated under a tree, with attendant chauri-bearers. At the shrine door are Naga guardians; and inside is a sitting Buddha in the teaching attitude. On the walls of the principal hall are several female figures larger than life, together with Bodhisattvas and attendant gandharvas and apsarasas. On the west wall is a figure of Buddha 16 feet in length, reclining on his right side, in the attitude in which he is said to have entered nirvana. On the back wall, at Buddha’s feet, stands Padmapani with four arms.
The other caves in the same hills are perfectly plain, and some of them are unfinished.
