The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s2.13

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Representations of temples, abound in reliefs at Barhut, Sāñcī, Bodh-Gayā, Mathurā. Shrines are also represented on a few coins prior to and at the beginning of the Christian era (J. N. Banerjea, ‘The Development of Hindu Iconography’, Pl. I, Fig. 16, see note 89; Coomaraswamy, HIIA, Pl. XXX, Figs. 116, 117, 126A). These early representations of various types of shrines do not correspond, as a whole, to the actually preserved temples of subsequent ages, although in some of their parts there is continuity and development. Some of the early types of temples, however, such as those on the Audumbara coins of the Punjab have their structural equivalent in Bengal temples of the present day.