A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.87

c8.87

including numerous subsidiary temples, tanks, and sculptured halls or cloisters. The quadrangle is entered by lofty gateways (*gopuram*), which ordinarily overtop the central shrine, and so spoil the effect of the architectural composition. But the great temple of Tanjore, its smaller replica at Gangaikondapuram, and some of the earlier temples at Conjeeveram (Kānchī) are designed on correct principles, with the central mass dominating the composition. Sometimes there are several quadrangles, one within the other.