The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c8.15
The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c8.15
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The roofs of the cottages at Bharhut are barrel-shaped, with semicircular gables, as in Pl. I, B, or built with pointed gables as in fig. A of the same plate. The exact material used to cover them is not quite clear, but similar forms of roof and the methods of construction applicable to them survive in the Bengali thatched cottage of the present day (Pl. II, and figs. 7 and 8).