[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c8.54 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c8.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.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. - [Previous: c8.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.53) - [Next: c8.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.55) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.54) · Pramāṇa