Picturesque Nepal . s moreessentially^ characteristic of Nepal than theforegoing, and^not only in_composition andconstruction, but also in detail, ,show_bheirdecided far-eastern origin. The richest andmost remarkable example of a Nepalcsepagoda 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 . s moreessentially^ characteristic of Nepal than theforegoing, and^not only in_composition andconstruction, but also in detail, ,show_bheirdecided far-eastern origin. The richest andmost remarkable example of a Nepalcsepagoda 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 riva] the Chaitya, asnone of these buildings date earlier than the. DOORWAY OF A SMALL TEMPLE AT liHATGAON. THE TAGODA 147 fifteenth century, butjjie method of construc-tion utilized in these edifices is,jtvithout doubt,bascd_on forms of_a very early period. Thesuggestion has been made that they reproducemany features directly traceable to the primi-tive_wooden erections of India, which precededthe ancient structures of stone. Apart fromthe Japanese prototype already alluded to,there is an authentic document preservedcontaining a reference to a tower of ninestories which excited the admiration of aChinese envoy to Nepal towards the middleof the sixth century. Sylvain Levi is inclinedto believe that the pagoda design, ordinarilyaccepted as of Chinese invention, was a formcommon in India previous to the Mohammedaninvasion, and concludes this theory with thepregnant sentence, Le Nepal, ici encore, estIimage authentique dune Inde the other hand, Fergussons researchesindicate that the pagoda, whether of Burma,Nepal, or Siam,
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