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The object of this article is not, however, to identify the country of Nāgara, nor to find out the inventor or inventors of the styles, although on them depend many interesting points of the ancient Indian architecture. Here it is clear that the expressions Nāgara, Vesara and Drāviḍa are geographical, and that they imply three styles of architecture in its broadest sense.