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‘The following wood-cut (photo no. 149) conveys, however, an idea of the general external appearance, which is more ornamental than that of northern Jain temples. The outer wall of those in the north is almost always quite plain. The southern ones are as generally ornamented with pilasters and crowned with a row of ornamental cells. Inside is a court probably square and surrounded by cloisters, at the back of which rises the vimāna over the cell, which contains the principal image of the Tīrthankar. It always is surmounted by a small dome, as is universally the case with every vimāna in Dravidian architecture, instead of with the mysterious amalaka ornament of northern sikras (śikharas).’