History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c19.s5.42

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A little to the north-west of this is the temple of Sangamesvar — now much dilapidated, but quite similar in plan and detail, if somewhat smaller and not so carefully finished, the mandapa is much ruined, as shown in Woodcut No. 206. Its interest lies in the fact that it is older by perhaps thirty or forty years than the preceding, having been erected in the reign of Vijayâditya (697-733). A third large Dravidian temple stands somewhat to the east of north from this last, and is still plainer — probably unfinished in its sculptured ornamentation; and to the north-west of it is one of several deserted temples here built in the northern Hindû style. These last two are represented on Woodcut No. 309 (vol. ii.), which places the two forms in vivid contrast. The building there shown on the left is this Sangamesvar temple — a storeyed pyramid of Dravidian architecture — and that on the right a tower in the northern style. In both the base is generally of a cubical form, but in the northern with a slight projection on each face.