Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c56.59

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Raised from the earth where it has stood in accordance with the Megalithic practice, the flat roofed stone temple on its plinth of terrace, is an established type having its proto-type in the dolmen and lavishly and richly pillared and roofed, according to the Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra.