A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.65

c8.65

pyramidal roof, justly praised by Fergusson, and described by the Workmans as the most perfectly proportioned structure which they had seen in the course of years of study devoted to Indian temples. The temple, when in better condition than it now is, was admired enthusiastically by Abūl Fazl, the minister and historian of Akbar in the sixteenth century. Considering its exceptional excellence, it is strangely late in date, having been built by King Narasimha, who reigned between A.D. 1240 and 1280, a time when high-class work was not often produced. A large book might be devoted to the description and illustration of this building and its sculptures, which [Figure: PLATE III. Āryāvarta style, Great Temple, Bhuvanesvar.