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Sikim is stated to have borrowed its architecture mostly from Tibet. But the doorway in the temple of Tashiding bears resemblance with the ‘feature nearly universal in Bihar and early western caves.’³ Another example is the temple at Pemiongchi ‘the form of roof of which we are familiar with in the rock examples, and also as illustrating the extent to which the bracket capital of India may be carried under the influence of wooden architecture.’⁴
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³ *Ibid*, wood-cut no. 163, p. 295.
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⁴ *Ibid*, wood-cut no. 164, p. 297.
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Thus while the Buddhist monuments of these regions are developed out of the northern Buddhist styles in India proper, the Brahmanical temples of the Śaiva and Vaishṇava faiths ‘will become more intelligible when studied in connexion with the Dravidian and northern styles.’⁵
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⁵ *Ibid*, Vol. II, p. 297.