Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c56.45

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2. Another testimony with regard to this, comes from Dr. Ramaniya (cf. his famous book ‘Origin of South Indian Temples’), where the learned Doctor made a very fine case for the Vimānas as the earliest buildings in the South as corroborated by the early Southern Texts also and illustrated by the unbroken tradition of the temples being made after the model of a chariot in that part of the country (e. g. Mamallapuram). Moreover, in accordance to, as the images were both Cala and Acala, and the carriers of the Cala ones were chariots, therefore, the chariots in their movement are likened to Temples.