History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c25.s6.3

v2.c25.s6.3

An attempted classification, though merely tentative, has on several occasions been made in order to attract attention to the subject, in hopes that some one with opportunities and knowledge might examine and revise it. With only such photographs as are available to depend upon, we can come to no satisfactory conclusions: at best they give only a partial, literally one-sided view of a building, and to ascertain its age we ought to be able to look all round it, and make ourselves familiar with its locality and surroundings. The thing will not be satisfactorily done till some one visits Orissa who has sufficient knowledge of the principles of archæology to arrange the temples in a chronometric scale; and this should not be difficult, the buildings are so uniform in character, and their architects expressed so simply and unaffectedly the feelings and art of their age.