The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s9.2

v1.c9.s9.2

⁵⁴ The relatively earlier datable sources as yet known are the ‘Īśānaśivagurudevapaddhati’ and the ‘Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra’; the latter gives two chapters to the Drāviḍa-prāsāda, while the former deals with the architecture of the Drāviḍa-prāsāda only to the exclusion of other types. The ‘Vaikhānasāgama’ is probably earlier and, on the whole, has been assigned a date not later than the eighth century A.D. Its author is Marīci; the architectural terms (śikhara, etc.) have their definite South Indian connotation.—The ‘Kāmikāgama’ appears to be later than the ‘Īśānaśivagurudevapaddhati’ or of the same age.