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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 459

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. Of the temples of the first Brahmin-ical perioil in India, the age anterior to the thirdcentury B.C., but little is known.770 TEMPLE Of ihe Buddhistic period, beginning about thethird century B.C., and extending to the fiftlicentury of our era, abundant remains of temples,both above and below… … Temple ok the Winds, .\t Athens. oral form of the to]ie or tumubis raised over asaered 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 Brahuiinical…

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