The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s2.8

v1.c9.s2.8

The buttresses do not form part of the flat roofed dolmen temple. They can be thought of as having originated in brick structures corresponding to the augmentation of a central area, by adding bricks in the four directions as in the piling of Vedic altars (Figs. in Part VII), not only but also in pillared buildings whose halls are made spacious by an analogous arrangement of the pillars. When the buttresses make their appearance on the otherwise plain walls of the Garbhagṛha, its roof is no longer flat but carries the superstructure, the Sikhara (Deogarh, etc.).