South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c6.s2.2
South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c6.s2.2
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¹ The Buddhist *stūpas* at Amarāvatī and other villages in the Guntūr district, the *stūpa* at Sankaram in the Vizagapatam district, and the caverns with rock-cut beds in the Madura and Tinnevelly districts are certainly much older but cannot in any sense be called temples. Some of these last may, however, have been used as temples in a much later period either by Buddhists or by Jainas.