Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India. Excavations at Taxila - the Stupas and Monasteries at Jauliān

One of these is a large coarse diaper of a kind not infrequently employed in foundations and characterised by the use of reltively large stones to fill the interstices between the bigger boulders This masonry is found in all the older parts of the walls of the monastery and in the lower courses of the wall immediately to the east of StiipaS D. The other variety is the familiar semi-ashlar work [...] In the monastery area the open quadrangle and the outside edge of the surrounding plinth to a width of some six feet had a rough pavement of limstone ; the floors of the rest of the plinth and of the cells were of mud and small gravel (bajri) well rammed and the floor of the image chapel was of the same materials but coated with lime plaster. [...] This difference between the age of the relievos and the body of the monument is evident from the clumsy fashion in which the larger figures have been applied to the 6ce of the walls by filling the hollows between the' horizontal basmouldings with small stones and mud building up a base of the required size (generally of the same materials) and finishing off with a coat of coarse lime plaster. [...] On the 'other hand the irregularity in the plan of the lower court is due to the shape of the hill-top the chapels on the northern side following the edge of the plateau ' instead of forming a.right. [...] The other variety is the semi-ashlar work which is employed for later additionand repairs (notably on the north side of the Assembly Hall the wall of which appears to have collapsed and in all the adjoining rooms on this side of the monastery) for the casings of the door frames and repairs in the cells and for the base of the niche in front of cell 25.