The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.s2.136.5

v2.c16.s2.136.5

that the balconies were surmounted by horse shoe-shaped framings on the top; that dormer windows with similar tops were common; that the rooms were arranged in suites, but they were generally narrow, as they always have been since and still are; and that, on the whole, the houses were not the dwellings of rude, primitive people, but of men who had made considerable advance in the arts of civilized life.