Cave II. was evidently a chapel; and its front is divided into compartments, containing fat dwarf figures, often in grotesque attitudes. The roof of the verandah was supported by four pillars with pilasters at the ends; and the northern side has a fat squatting figure with a high and elaborate head-dress, a jewelled cord over the breast, and attended by a chauri-bearer. Probably a similar figure was on the south side, but only the female attendant is left, and a gandharva holding a garland over her head. Two tall dvarapalas, with lofty head-dresses and aureoles, stand by the door. They have gandharvas over their shoulders; and a female with a nimbus behind her head, stands between the dvarapala and the door. The front wall has a door and two windows; and the jambs of the latter, together with the greater portion of the wall, are covered with sculptures of Buddha. The cave measures 48 feet square, exclusive of the lateral galleries on each side; and the roof is supported by twelve massive columns arranged in a square. The pillars have elegant cushion capitals and high square bases, and stand on a platform about 18 inches above the front of the side aisles. With the exception of four pillars in the back row, the other columns have little dwarf figures on the upper corners-of the square portions of the shafts; above this they are circular and fluted; and the spaces between the dwarf figures and a belt below them, are covered with rich and varied arabesques. Each side gallery has four pillars of different designs; and the front is carved with florid work and contains figures of musicians. In each of the five compartments at the back of the several galleries, is a figure of Buddha, seated like the colossal one in the shrine, and attended by chauri-bearers, the one on the right holding a lotus bud. Some of the figures in the side galleries are unfinished. The dvarapalas of the shrine are 13 to 14 feet high; and on the left is Padmapani, holding a rosary in the right hand and a lotus stalk in the left. His robe is fastened round the waist by a string, and he wears his head-dress in the jata style of asceties, ornamented in front with a small image of Amitabha Buddha. The other figure, perhaps Indra, has a very richly jewelled head-dress, with a small dagoba on the front of it; and wears bracelets, armlets, and a thick jewelled Brahmanical cord, while a small bouquet of flowers is in his right hand. Both are attended by two pairs of gandharvas above; and midway up the wall are other figures with curly wigs, bearing garlands. A female worshipper with a flower in her right hand is between each dvarapala and the door. The shrine contains a colossal Buddha seated on a lion throne in the teaching attitude. His feet rest on a nearly circular plinth; his head is surrounded with the nimbus, and he has a gandharva on either side. The usual chauri-bearers are also present; and on each sidewall is a colossal standing figure of Buddha. In the corners are four worshipping figures, one above another. A double cell, in line with the side aisles, is on each side of the shrine; and in the outer cell, over the front wall, are figures of Buddha with attendants. The largest figure is that of a female, probably Pandara the mother of Padmapani or some other of the Taras. She is attended by two smaller figures with lotus flowers, and has six vidyadharas over her head. In her right hand she probably held a rosary, behind her head is the aureole, on the front of the head-dress is the dagoba, and large earrings of different forms are in her ears. There are two small dagobas in relief over an image of Buddha, in the cell on the south of the shrine, and a third dagoba is on the end of the south gallery. The style of the dagoba is plain, but the type is not an early one; and this with the profusion of imagery, would seem to indicate a late date for the cave, which has not even the arched roof of the chaitya. It may have been begun in the 5th or 6th century, and the carvings may have been carried down to the 7th. Next to the cave is a deep water cistern, now filled up with earth.
