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# A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.23

A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.23

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### [c8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.23)

² \*Hist. of Ind. and Eastern Architecture\* (1910), p. 66. The suggestion has been made in Ceylon that the domical form was adopted as being the best fitted to resist weather and the damage caused by vegetation.

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