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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this two other porches were afterwards added, the Nat-mandir, G, and
Bhog-mandir, D, making the whole length of the temple about 300 ft.,
or as nearly as may be the same as that at Bhu vanes war. Besides
this there are, as in all great Hindu temples, numberless smaller
shrines within the two enclosures, but, as in all instances in the
north, they are kept subordinate to the principal one, which here
towers supreme over all.

238. View of Tower of Temjile of Juganat. (Prom a Photograph.)

Except in its double enclosure, and a certain irregularity of plan,
this temple does not differ materially in arrangement from the great
ones at Bhuvaneswar and elsewhere; but besides the absence of detail
already remarked upon, the outline of its vimana is totally devoid
either of that solemn solidity of the earlier examples, or the grace that
characterised those subsequently erected ; and when we add to this
that whitewash and paint have done their worst to add vulgarity to
forms already sufficiently ungraceful, it will easily be understood that