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There is, however, a marked difference of the Jain architecture of the north and of the south. ‘The first peculiarity that strikes one as distinguishing the Jain architecture of the south from that of the north, is the division of the southern temples into two classes. Bastis (*Basadi*, *Vasati*, monastery or temple) and Bettas (? *Vasahika*, buildings, including monastery and temple). The former are temples in the usual acceptance of the word, as understood in the north, and, as there, always containing an image of one of the twenty-four *Tīrthaṅkaras*, which is the object there worshipped. The latter are unknown in the north; and are courtyards usually on a hill or rising ground, open to the sky and containing images, not of a *Tīrthankara*, but of Gomata or Gomateśwara so called, though he is not known to the Jains in the north.’ While the Jain Bastis at Sravana Belgola would look like an ordinary Hindu temple, the lamp-bearing pillar before it, as also at Guruvāyankeri, resembles the Buddhist free pillars. But the Jain temples at Mūdābidri and its pillars have similarities with the Buddhist pagodas and pillars of the far eastern colonies of the Hindus.¹