Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.46
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.46
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The distinction between these three forms of ancient roofing is visible in the ancient Indian palaces and Bodhi-gharas in the Barabar Hills, at Karle, Kanheri Amarāvatī and Mathurā. As time passed the flat roof on pillars and corbels came into vogue and it became possible to accommodate on the top many open pillared pavilions like *Chandra-Śālā*, about which Bāṇa and Kālidāsa write so often.