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⁴ ‘It seems likely that, as the ribs were of bamboo and were probably fixed in the ridge, the roof was wagon-headed, like the huts of the Todas at the present day (see illustrations of rivers, *The Todas*, pp. 25, 27, 28, 51), and the rock-cut Chaityas or assembly halls of the Buddhists in Western India, in some of the earliest of which the wooden ribs of the arched roof are still preserved.’ See Fergusson, *History of Indian Architecture*, II, 135, cf. 126.