. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. established in India at the time when theseworks were finished. 58. The structure of the earliest Indian tem- ^i^^M^\ l)les was extremely simple. Pyramidal, and of large xj dimensions, they had no light but that which the ^; door afforded ; and, indeed, the gloom of the cavern 3 seems to have led them to consider the solemn dark- :J ness of such a mansion sacred. There are ruins of 11 this sort at Deogur and at a spot near Tanjore, in 1; the Carnati
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. established in India at the time when theseworks were finished. 58. The structure of the earliest Indian tem- ^i^^M^\ l)les was extremely simple. Pyramidal, and of large xj dimensions, they had no light but that which the ^; door afforded ; and, indeed, the gloom of the cavern 3 seems to have led them to consider the solemn dark- :J ness of such a mansion sacred. There are ruins of 11 this sort at Deogur and at a spot near Tanjore, in 1; the Carnatic. In proportion, however, to the \>- 1 gress of the country in o]nilence and refinement, their : sacred buildings jjccame iiighly ornamented, and nuist I be considered as monuments exhibiting a high de- I gree of civilisation of the people by whom they were i erected. Very highly finished ])agodas, of great an- 1 tiipiity, are found in different parts of Hindostan, ami • ))artienlarly in its southern districts, where they were ~ not sul)jected to the destructive fury of Mahometan zeal. To assist the reader in forming a notion of the.
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