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"The style is similar to that of the cave temples of Udayagiri, and of the structural temples at Eran" "The use of flat roofs would seem to show that these buildings must belong to the very earliest period of structural architecture. When the architect, whose work has hitherto been confined to the erection of porticoes in front of caves, was first called upon to build the temple itself as well as the porticoes, he naturally copied this only prototype, and thus produced in a structural form the exact facsimile of a rock-hewn cave. "¹