Fergusson, James: History of Indian and Eastern architecture (Band 2) (London, 1910)

Chap. I.

SIKHARAS AND PLANS

and civilisation, and over which the languages spoken are of
Sanskritic descent.

If this reservation is always borne in mind, I know of no
term that more conveniently expresses the characteristics of
this style, and it is consequently proposed to adopt it in the
following pages as the name of the style that prevailed among
the Hindus in northern India, between the Himalaya and
Vindhya mountains, and even much further south, from the
7th century to the present day.

309. Dravidian and Indo-Aryan Temples at Pattadakal. (From a Photograph.)

The general appearance of the northern temples, and the
points of difference between them and those of the south, will
be appreciated from the above woodcut (No. 309), representing
two very ancient temples, built in juxtaposition at Pattadakal,
in Bijapur district. That on the left is a complete specimen
of Dravidian architecture {ante, vol. i. p. 355). There is the same
pyramidal form, the same distinction of storeys, the same cells
on each, as we find at Mamallapuram (Woodcut No. 185), at
Tanjor (Woodcut No. 213), or at Madura (Woodcut No. 195).
The right-hand temple—that of Galaganath, to the north-west
of Sangame^var’s — is Indo-Aryan of somewhat later date,
and in which, on the contrary, the outline of the pyramid is
curvilinear; no trace of division of storeys is observable, no
reminiscence of habitations and no pillars or pilasters any-