Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s1.20

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It may also be noted that in referring to the ancient tradition of the funeral mounds the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa has noted two architectural, viz. square (catuḥsrakti) and round (parimaṇḍala) forms for a burial mound, and it is especially recorded that the monuments of the easterners (prācyāḥ) were circular.¹