A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c7.48

c7.48

The varying practical requirements of the cult of each religion, of course, had an effect on the nature of the buildings required for particular purposes. For instance, the church or 'chaitya-hall' was of use to Buddhists only, and consequently is a purely Buddhist form. But any given church would be built in the style of its age and country. Similarly each religion had its own fashion of representing deities, but a Buddhist Bodhisattva, say, of the twelfth century would be modelled in the same style as a Brahmanist Vishṇu from the same region.