A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 452
a. Of the tenqdes of the first Brahmin-ical period in India, the age anterior to the thirdcentury B.C., but little is known.770 TEMPLE Of the Buddliistic jjerioil, beginning about thethird century B.C., ;ind extending to the fifthcentury of our era, abundant remains of temples,both above and below… … eral form of the tope or tumulus raised over asacred relic is a hemisphere carried on a circularbasement, while that of the cave temple is abasilica with two aisles and a nave, at the endof which stands a sanctuary in the form of a771 Temple of the Wixds, at Athens. The second Brahminical period,…
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