The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c16.16

c16.16

This was not the first or only colonising enterprise of India. Ceylon had been brought under the influence of Aryan culture by Asoka's missionaries in the third century b.c. ; and according to tradition a Hindu Prince of Indraprashta, with a large number of followers, had gone farther east as early as the fifth century b.c., and founded the great colony of Cambodia which flourished until the fifteenth century a.d. These great Indo-Aryan colonies furnish some of the most glorious chapters in the history of Indian architecture, but they cannot be included in the present volume. The key to the understanding