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The pure proportions of the earlier texts are, it has been shown, modified later. A large body of Vāstuśāstras, moreover, which belongs to South India, testifies to a further departure from the correspondence between the proportions of the plan and the elevation of the temple. None of the known sources of South Indian architecture is as ancient as the ‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’.⁵⁴ In the ‘Īśānaśivagurudevapaddhati’, compiled between the ninth and eleventh centuries, is the key to the complexities of the proportions of the South Indian temples. They correspond to the complex nature of these types of temples.