Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s3.91

c4.s3.91

⁶ ¶ Sometimes a portico is made round the *garb'hagriha* and *antarála* together, the whole being closed closed by walls on all the sides but the front, in which are the doors for entrance, approached by the front portico, which is generally a peristyle, and it serves as the innermost court around which people perform their circumambulations; I say the innermost court, because there are other courts around the whole temple.