Cave IV. is much ruined, and the whole of the outer half has disappeared. It is 35 feet wide and 39 feet deep up to two pillars and pilasters. These have capitals with drooping florid ears, and necks with thirty-two flutes, while the shafts are square below. A cross aisle is behind the pillars; and at the left end of it is Lokeswara seated like Buddha, with high jata, a small Buddha as crest on its front, and locks hanging down upon the shoulders. The figure clasps a lotus to the left thigh, and has a deer skin over the left shoulder, and a rosary in the right hand. A female to the right has a rosary, and another to the left has a flower bud. Over the first is a standing Buddha, and above this is another Buddha, seated cross-legged on a lotus, with the left hand down and the right hand raised. There are doors to two cells and to the shrine. The dvarapalas have elaborate head-dresses, and a dwarf stands between each dvarapala and the door. The shrine contains a seated Buddha in the teaching attitude, with a nimbus at the back of his head, and the foliage of the sacred Bodhi tree rising from behind it. The Chauri-bearers stand at the rear of the throne; but one of them is destroyed, while the other on Buddha’s left is richly dressed, and wears a jewelled cord across his breast. A cell in the south has its western side broken away. It contains figures of Buddha with attendants, and a female with rosary, &e. To the west of the door is Padmapani, and the half of a sort of litany which has two supplicants instead of four, with a smaller flying figure of Padmapani before each group.
