The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s7.52

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¹¹⁴ In the temple of Amaranātha (Ambarnath), Thana District, Bombay, 1060 A.D., the floor of the shrine is sunk below the outside ground level and about 7' or 8' lower than that of the hall. Stairs descend to it. The possibility of an original shrine on the same level as that of the hall (Cousens, op. cit., p. 13) does not detract from the fact of the sunk level, as it now is, of the Garbhagṛha. Other temples in the Deccan, in Gujerat, Rajputana, the Central Provinces and Orissa are sufficiently widely distributed to be valid examples of a practised form of worship and architecture. In the Deccan, the Nāgeśvara temple at Karjah (Ahmednagar ; l.c., p. 58) has a shrine of which the floor is 6' below the floor of the hall approached by a flight