A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.76
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.76
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Numerous recent buildings, sacred and secular, combine the Muhammadan dome with the Bengālī cornice, omitting the steeple. Such buildings are erected freely by Hindus for purely Hindu purposes, as, for instance, the elegant mausoleum built at Benares to the memory of the lately deceased saint, Swāmi Bhāskaranand, which looks like a Muslim building. An example will be illustrated in Chapter XII.