The lower floor of the sanctuary is a chessboard designed labyrinth

history channel documentary The lower floor of the sanctuary is a chessboard designed labyrinth of ways that partitions the ground floor into 84 fields that are symmetrically orchestrated around the inside. The waiting room/vestibule of the western fundamental passageway is one end of the two tomahawks that constitute the inside cross with each of its closures indicating at one of the four cardinal focuses. The vestibule or patio has on the left and right side a passage. In the event that one draws a line associating the two doorways the line separates the vestibule in two equivalent halves.The next way is the external hallway that is running parallel to the four sides of the inward structure, along these lines framing a square as does the following passage that structures the internal square of the two.

The inward way is running along the four sides of the middle 3D shape with its four corners indicating in course of the four cardinal focuses. Each of these specialties is lodging an enormous teak Buddha statue. Entering the Ananda from west and looking straight down the hall into the sanctuary's inward section one sees the lower part of a couple of legs and feet. That are the legs and feet of the statue of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha (c 563 to c 483 BC), which is confronting west. Gautama Buddha is the 28th Buddha in a long line that is covered in the fog of myth and legend starting with Tanhankara the first Buddha.

In the corner toward the east is a statue of Konagamana, the 26th Buddha, in the one toward the north Kakusanda, the 25th Buddha and the one toward the south Kassapa, the 27th Buddha. The present statues are all made of wood. There are individuals who say that Kassapa (south) is made of bronze. This is not genuine in light of the fact that lone the first was. This duplicate here is cut out of teak. The statues of Kakusanda and Kassapa are said to be the first statues while those of Gautama and Konagamana are later duplicates. The firsts were obliterated; Kassapa in all likelihood by chemists. With respect to Konagamana some say by a flame lighted by an imprudent admirer's candle or oil light others say by sanctuary thieves. The truth remains that new statues must be made.