The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s4.20

v1.c8.s4.20

⁵⁹ An interpretation in the opposite direction does not seem probable. ‘Megalithic’ village and wayside shrines abound and are set up to this day. The flat roofed temples, have but a relatively large size and their numbers, as preserved from the Gupta, etc. to the Cola age, are not so impressive as to have left a permanent mark on the humble village and wayside chapel to this day. It is not a question of highly significant and evolved types sinking back into folk art, but of perennial types ever ready to have their implicit meaning stated explicitly, by art. An origin in megalithic forms, is also indicated by some of the smaller temples, also at Tigawa of 4' to 6' length, whatever be the shape of their roof ; they are apparently built with three sides only, the fourth being open to the East (ASI, vol. I. p. 42).