ARTS & CRAFTS OF INDIA & CEYLON are taken over directly from the old Buddhist forms. … Buddhist, Dravidian, and Rajput donie-^. The dome is usually ribbed, affording clear vestigial evidence of an original construction dependent on the elasticity of bent bamboo; thus the Dravidian and Aryavarta shikharas are actually closely relat- ed; the one has developed in height and is differ-…
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