A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 459
Of the temples of the first Brahmin-ical period in India, the age anterior to the thirdcentury B.C., but little is known.770 TEMPLE Of the BiuUlhistio iicrkxl, beginning about thethird Iontury B.C., and extending to the fiftheentury of our erii, abundant remains of temples,both above and below… … Temple of the Wdtds, at Athens. era] 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 The second Brahminical period,…
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