A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.47

c8.47

The variety of styles which may be distinguished depends, as already observed, not on differences of creed, but on date and locality. At Khajurāho, for instance, Jain and Brahmanical temples alike are built in the ‘Indo-Aryan’ style, and the building at Delhi, which Fergusson cites as a typical example of the ‘modern Jaina style’, is merely an ordinary specimen of late architecture in the ‘composite’ style usual since the eighteenth century.