Fergusson, James: A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day: in five volumes (Band 3) (London, 1899)

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BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE.

Book I.

No. 10) is substantially tliat erected by Amara the Brahman, in the
beginning of tlie 6th century, but the niches Hiouen Thsang saw,
containing golden statues of Buddha, cannot be those now existing,
and the sculptures he mentions find no place in the present design ;
and the anndakas of gilt copper that crowned the whole, as he saw
it, have disappeared. The changes in detail, as well as the intro-
duction of radiating arches in the interior, I fancy must belong to

10. Temple at Bnddh Gaya with Bo-tree. (From a Photograph by Mr. Peppe, C.E.)

the Burmese restoration in the beginning of the l-lth century.
Though these, consequently, may have altered its appearance in
detail, it is probable that we still have before us a straight-lined
pyramidal nine-storeyed temple of the (5th century, retaining all its
essential forms — anomalous and unlike anything else we find in
India, either before or afterwards, but probably the parent of many
nine-storeyed towers found beyond the Himalayas, both in China and
elsewhere.

Eventually we may discover other examples which may render