History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c25.s3.3

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still the details of the tower exhibit a progress towards modern forms which is unmistakable.¹ Abul Fazl after describing the temple with considerable detail and circumstantiality and ascribing it to Râja Narasingh-deva I., adds that "it is said to be a work of 730 years' antiquity."² In other words, it was erected about A.D. 860, or just about 400 years before Narasingh's date which must arise from an error in the hundreds figure. Narasingh-deva must, however, have employed architects of very different tastes and abilities to those engaged a century earlier in erecting the Purî temple.