The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 79
entsof the country, one finds a number of sthambas anddagobas (called indiscriminately pagodas by the for-eigners) scattered in many places through Burmahand Siam. All follow pretty much the same pattern,and consist of a conelike structure rising from twoor more terraces, and terminating in a sort… … Fig. 21.—The pagoda of Shoemadco. and many are surrounded by a double row of eithersthambas or miniature pagodas. Shoedagong, at Rangoon, and Khomado, on theIrrawaddy, are the best known after the above men-tioned. All three are of stone, and with others oftheir kind arc the only structures in…
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