The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 70
height, ostentatiously orna-mented with sculptured gods and their animal incar-nations or representatives, for every Hindu divinityhas its representative (as the cow of Lakshmi, god-dess of fortune, love, and temporal happiness; theelephant head of Ganeca, god ol wisdom and cun-ning; or the fish of… … Plate V.—The choultry at Chillumbaram. 48 INDIA, IN DO-CHINA, AND JAVA. roofed with flat slabs of granite, a simple matter inthe case of the side aisles, none of which are over six-feet wide ; but, in order to accomplish the same thingin the middle aisle, which measures over twenty feetin width, a…
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