Picturesque Nepal . as moreessentially characteristic of Nepal than theforegoing, and, not only in composition andconstruction, but also in detail, show theirdecided far-eastern origin. The richest andmost remarkable example of a Nepalesepagoda is without doubt the temple ofChangu-Narain, while the most dignified andmonumental is the Nyatpola Deval or Templeof Five stories. It is interesting to notethat the latter has its almost exact counter-part in the Pagoda of Horinje in Japan, con-structed at least ten centuries earlier thanthe Bhatgaon building, but both edifices areobviously based on th
Picturesque Nepal . as moreessentially characteristic of Nepal than theforegoing, and, not only in composition andconstruction, but also in detail, show theirdecided far-eastern origin. The richest andmost remarkable example of a Nepalesepagoda is without doubt the temple ofChangu-Narain, while the most dignified andmonumental is the Nyatpola Deval or Templeof Five stories. It is interesting to notethat the latter has its almost exact counter-part in the Pagoda of Horinje in Japan, con-structed at least ten centuries earlier thanthe Bhatgaon building, but both edifices areobviously based on the same architectonicprinciples originally derived from every street and square in the Valleyproduces one or more of these quaint edifices,and some of the smaller pagodas are completespecimens on a miniature scale of this fancifulstyle of Nepalese architecture. It has alreadybeen indicated that the pagoda does not pre-tend to rival in antiquity the Chaitya, asnone of these buildings date earlier than the.
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