[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) › c8.71 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.71 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.71 - **Language:** English ### [c8.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.71) The Bengal variety is characterized by the use of the bent cornice, obviously copied from the bamboo eaves of an ordinary Bengal hut, and by a peculiar arrangement of the curvilinear steeples; one lofty steeple placed over the centre being surrounded by four, eight, or sixteen smaller towers of the same form. Figure 10 illustrates a seventeen-towered temple in the Dinājpur District. Some of the details are Muhammadan. Fergusson has described a large similar temple at Kāntonagar in the same District, finished in 1722, and decorated with applied terra-cottas of slight artistic merit. This variety of the Āryāvarta style is peculiar to Bengal.¹ The only example recorded outside that province is one at Bilhari, Central Provinces, built to the order of a Bengālī immigrant. - [Previous: c8.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.70) - [Next: c8.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.72) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.71) · Pramāṇa