Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.21

c4.21

of *Apper*, *Sundarer*, *Sammander*, *Mánicyavásarer*, and other holy men, several of whom are supposed to have lived between the third and fifth century of *Saliváhn*. The ground on which this proof rests is, that in the chapters which prescribe rules for carving statues, directions are likewise given for carving those of the personages here mentioned, who have been admitted among the inferior divinities, and assumed their places around the temple of *Siva*, particularly in the South of India. But some learned men to whom I mentioned this circumstance, rather than concur in an opinion which detracts from the antiquity of these works, are inclined to think that the passages in question are modern interpolations.