The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c20.34

c20.34

and Buddhists to the places farthest from the chief attraction of the tîrth shows that they were the last comers and had to content themselves with inferior stations. When the Jains began to add to the architectural splendour of the place, about the ninth century, the best available site was on the northern side of the "Ganges source," and at a considerable distance from it, where the two fine temples already alluded to, the Indra Sabhâ and the Jagannath Sabhâ, are located.