The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c13.8

c13.8

Here it is only the usual collection of simple shrines and primitive hermits’ huts which had existed in India from time immemorial, but some pious benefactor is superintending the paving of the ground with bricks, a cartload of which is being unloaded in the foreground. One of the monks is bringing water to pour on the sacred tree, planted on a mound surrounded by the Vedic rail, which grows beside one of the shrines. The bhikku’s water-vessel is the same as that used by a Brahman sannyâsin in the present day, and the bullock-cart is an exact rendering of the country vehicle for which modern invention has not yet found a practical substitute.