The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 73
ch hold a sort of artistic transitional relation be-tween the Buddhist rock-cut sanctuaries and the Dra-vidian fanes. These are monolithic temples in whichan entire edifice is hewn out of a granite mountain 5 50 INDIA, INDO-CHINA, AND JA VA. and left standing- isolated. Each building is hollowedout… … ■*?-.-... 7- . v ■ —■Fig. 19.—Temple at Ellora. of Karli, Tanjore, and Mahavellipore in one. Herethe entire main edifice has been carved from a singleblock of red granite by cutting a rectangular trenchdown through the slope of a mountain to a depth ofone hundred feet and leaving a large mass of…
Architecture -- History
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