The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c7.329

v1.c7.329

A careful survey of these facts leads us to the inevitable conclusion that quarriers, masons, and sculptors existed in the country long before the periods fixed by the learned author of the *History of Architecture*, and by Mrs. Manning respectively, and that there likewise existed stone and brick edifices of some kind or other, and which, to judge from existing remains, were unlike any Greek, Egyptian or Assyrian building that we are acquainted with. For aught we know there may have been a time when the Indians copied from the Assyrians, 'but it was at such a remote period in history that nothing precise can be said about it.