The ancient and medieval architecture of India : a study of Indo-Aryan civilisation (1915)
Havell, E. B. (Ernest Binfield), 1861-1934 · London : J. Murray · leaf 181
90 BHIMA’S RATH In this particular the Saivaites of the seventh century were probably borrowers or adaptors of Buddhist structural ideas, though Saivaite and Buddhist art as a whole comes from a common Indo-Aryan source. The ground plan (fig. 39) shows the hall, or temple, measuring in the model… … Fic. 39.—Plan of Bhima’s Rath (from Fergusson’s ‘‘ Cave Temples’). Excepting the roof, all the details—the pillars and pilasters; the chhajas; the rows of cells surrounding the procession-path on the first floor, etc.—are the same as in the four-storied pyra- midal monastery last described. At each…
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