The Hindu Temple v2.c13.s1.28

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The main and primary shapes of temples are represented by the first three groups, of which the first two belong together. The one shape is that of a square temple having a one-pointed or peaked roof, while the other kind of temple has a ridged roof (Valabhī). This type of temple is not listed amongst the 20 Temples of the ‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’. The ‘Matsyapurāṇa’ and particularly the ‘Viśvakarmaprakāśa’, include it under the name Valabhīcchanda amongst the Twenty Temples. The V. P. describes it as having three Śukanāsās; the V. Dh. speaks of three Āmalasārakas. This particular temple, Valabhīcchanda, is the first of the rectangular temples in the list of the 45 temples. Incorporations and adjustments of certain types by the different schools may be seen here; a transfer of names of the temples was however, it appears, resorted to only at a later phase in the formation of the various schools of architecture.