The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c12.23
The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c12.23
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c12.23
The magnificent chaitya-house at Kârlê, carved in the rocks of the Western Ghats between Bombay and Poona, though not the most ancient, is typical of the best architectural work of the Hînayâna School in India. Fergusson dated it tentatively about the first century B.C. The main work of excavation may, however, have been begun even as early as Asoka's