The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s3.18

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⁸³ The pyramid above the cube is to this day the form of simple shrines in Benares (cf. also R. L. Mitra, ‘The Indo-Aryans’, Vol. II). Here the ‘original’ stereometrical, symbolic form outlived its diversified appearance in the great monuments such as those of Bodh-gayā, or the South Indian Vimānas of about 1000 A.D. As a peculiar version of the Śikhara with Uromañjarīs, the temple of Sinaria (Monghyr, Bihar) deserves mention. Applied in low relief to its pyramidal superstructure are triangular Uromañjarīs (ASI. Bihar and Orissa photographs, 1936-7 ; No. 4655).