The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c21.20

c21.20

The plan of the temple (fig. 63) points to the probability that the structure is not all of the same age, but that the sanctum and perhaps the inner four-pillared mandapam belong to a more ancient shrine which was enclosed in the tenth century by the wonderful casket which now forms the exterior, on the same principle as the great Siva temples of Southern India were gradually built round a nucleus of a simple yogi's cell.