History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c33.s7.8

v2.c33.s7.8

Internally, the building is extremely solid, being intersected only by two narrow parallel corridors; but in rear of each projecting transept is a niche artificially lighted from above, in which stands a statue of Buddha more than 30 ft. in height. This is the arrangement we find in the Chaumukh temple at Pâlitânâ and at Rânpur (Woodcut No. 288), both Jaina temples of the 15th and 17th centuries, and which it is consequently rather surprising to find here as early as the 11th century (A.D. 1066); but the form and the whole of the arrangement