The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s3.31

v1.c8.s3.31

In no type of the temple however is the ‘citi’ as substantially part of the entire conception as in the terrace-temples, excavated in Pahārpur in Bengal (c. 8th century, ‘Memoir, ASI, No. 55, p. 7 f), and Ahicchatra, near Rampur, Bareilly, in the United Provinces, dating from the fourth to the tenth and eleventh century (note 117). In these large and spreading brick structures the super-imposed terraces, of which there are three or more, recede successively forming a stepped pyramid from whose centre arose the walls of the shrine.