This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...the temple to the reign of Chandra Gupta. II. The accompanying view will give a much clearer conception of this peculiar style of temple than any description.' On the top will be seen the spouts for discharging the rainwater, which afford the most convincing proof that the roof of the temple was flat. Next to be noted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...the temple to the reign of Chandra Gupta. II. The accompanying view will give a much clearer conception of this peculiar style of temple than any description.' On the top will be seen the spouts for discharging the rainwater, which afford the most convincing proof that the roof of the temple was flat. Next to be noted is the architrave of the portico, which is continued round the body of the temple as a simple moulding. Then follow the pillars with their square massive capitals just twice the breadth of the shafts. The flat roof, the square form, and the stern simplicity of this structural temple, all point to the rock-hewn cave as its prototype; and in the neighbouring hill Udayagiri we have actual rock-hewn examples of this very style. In early times, where a cliff was at hand, a cave seems to have been preferred; but on the top of the Sanchi hill, as on the plain at Eran, where a cave was an impossibility, a structural temple was a necessity. I sought in vain for any writing, or even a single letter, to give a clue to the date of this old building; but the plain reeded bells without the turn-overs of the Eran examples seem to furnish quite sufficient evidence that this is the oldest specimen of a structural temple that I have seen. To the north-east of the Stupa there still stands in its original position the broken shaft of a small monolith, bearing a short inscription of one line of Gupta characters.2 On searching round about the pillar I discovered two other pieces of the shaft as well as the broken capital, all buried in the earth. The standing portion of the pillar and the capital are both represented in the accompanying plate.3 The'whole height of the shaft was 14 feet 5 inches with a base diameter of 16 inches and a top diameter of 13 inches. Abov...
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