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⁵³ The term cube is used here to designate a 4-sided prism approximating the shape of a cube. The Buddhist Temple No. 17, Sāñci; Viṣṇu Temple at Eran, near Bhilsa (Percy Brown, op. cit., Pl. XXXIV). Kaṅkālī Devī Temple at Tigawa, C. P. The temple of Pattainī Devī near Unchahara, C.P. (Cunningham, ASI, vol. IX. p. 31) with its monolithic roof belongs to the 10th or 11th century judging from the carvings of its door frame. The shrines of the Gonds, in the Lalitpur District, c. I. (P. C. Mukherji, ‘Report on the Antiquities in the District of Lalitpur’) are the corresponding ab-original types. The Gonds in central India still set up miniature dolmens. Dolmens are also set up to this day by the Khasi, Munda, Oraon, Bhil, Kurumba and Malayarayan. N. Kunjan Pillai, ‘The Travancore Census Report’, pp. 57-60. “Dolmens have actually been used as Śaivite temples”, ‘Census of India, Report’, 1931, p. 406. Old dolmens are set up as Śiva shrines for example at Kambaduru, Kalyandrug, Anantapur District, see Longhurst, ‘Annual Report of the Archæological Survey of India’, Southern Circle, 1915-16, p. 29, Pl. III.