The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c7.26

c7.26

¹ The elephant was the rain-cloud which came with the south-west monsoon. Vamana was also the short arm of the cosmic cross—otherwise Vishnu's dwarf incarnation—the apparent distance between the sun at its zenith and its nadir being less than that between sunrise and sunset, or the long arm of the cross. This street could, therefore, also be anglicised as "Short Street."