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(12) ‘There is one other peculiarity common to both Jain and Hindu architecture in the north of India that requires notice. It is the form of the towers or spires called sikras or vimānas which invariably surmount the cell in which the images are placed.’ Fergusson.—(*Hist. of Ind. and East. Architecture*, p. 221.)