Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v6.c41.s14.24

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‘It is, however, remarkable, considering the close connexion between India and Burma, so far as architectural style is concerned, to find the arch and vault employed systematically throughout the latter country in buildings many of which are said to have been built by Indian workmen, and further to note that those features appear only when they became an actual necessity, as in doorways requiring wide openings, or the covering cover of corridors and small internal chambers with a permanent incombustible material to carry these roofs. Those roofs were, as a rule, in the square temples, not flat terraces, but assumed an ogee section following the rise of the vault.’² This is shown in the temples of Ānanda, the Kyanktaugyi, and Abhayadāna, south of Pagān.³