The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c15.25

c15.25

(Pl. XXIX), is another fine example of the sâyana type, but here the cell remains square, and only the double vaulted roof, gabled at the ends with sun-windows, shows that it was meant for an image of Vishnu-Nârâyana. Fergusson attributes it to about the tenth or eleventh centuries; but the data by which he calculated, in the absence of inscriptions, were in most cases very unreliable, and probably the temple, like that at Bodh-Gayâ, is a good many centuries earlier than his estimate.