The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c15.28

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c15.28

The builders of the Saiva schools aimed at expressing the power of knowledge, of abstract thought—the static force of the universe. And they did so first by the image of the Great Yogi sitting with mind and reason set upon the Eternal, like a lamp in a windless place "which flickereth not." The plain cubical cell, with a flat roof or dome, which contained

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