A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.54
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.54
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c8.54
In the crowd of varieties two leading styles of temple architecture—the Northern or Indo-Aryan of Fergusson, and the Southern or Dravidian—may be readily distinguished.² If it be possible to amend the nomenclature so long established by Fergusson's authority, it would be preferable to give territorial names to all styles, calling the Indo-Aryan style that of Āryāvarta or Hindustan, the great plain between the Himalayas and the Narbadā.³ The term Dravidian is free from objection, Drāvida being the ancient name of peninsular India.