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⁴⁹ The walls occupy three quarter of the total area of the temple ('Matsyapurāṇa', Ch. CCLXIX, 1 ff.). In later temples, the walls are built in two shells; their interior is solidly packed with horizontal blocks of stones, laid in courses (M. M. Ganguli, 'Orissa and Her Remains', p. 145) or the space is filled with loose boulders or dry rubble (H. Cousens, 'Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan', p. 6), etc. These replace the almost 'cyclopean' walls of the temples preserved from the 4th to the 9th centuries. No reference is here made to the double walls, with an inner Pradakṣiṇā, Andhakārikā, or ambulatory of the temple type called Sāndhāra; see Part VII. In brick temples, the massive superstructure is modified according to structural exigencies. In Gujarati works on architecture, 24 varieties of Śikharas are described built either with a brick core or hollow (Burgess—Cousens, 'Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat', ASWI.,