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.s22.t1.30

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There is a group of temples on the tableland at the foot of Mount Prahu, known as Dieng Plateau, about 35 miles north of Boro Budur ‘They consist only of simple sanctuaries and are not remarkable for the beauty of their details. But they are Indian temples pure and simple and dedicated to Indian gods. What these temples tell us further is, that if Java got her Buddhism from Gujarat and the mouths of the Indus, she got her Hinduism from Telingana and the mouths of the Krishnā. These Dieng temples do not show a trace of the curve-lined *śikharas* of Orissa (*Vesara*) or of Indo-Aryan (*Nāgara*) style.’ ‘Nor are these temples Dravidian in any proper sense of the term. They are in storeys, but not with cells, nor any reminiscences of such; but they are Chalukyan, in a clear and direct meaning of the term.’²