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“The square rathas were evidently models of Buddhist *vihāras*, and became the designs from which the temples proper or *vimānas* of Southern India were for long copied; and further, the oblong raths, like Arjuna’s temple, appeared to have given the first form to the great gate-ways or *gopurams*.”\1 Pierced stone windows are found at Ellora and other places.