History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c14.s5.43
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c14.s5.43
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47. The śikhara style goes out of fashion in the Gupta times in stone temples. But the Nāgara type asserts itself in the Gupta period itself more in brick.¹ In mediæval architecture, there is a combination of the pillar and the śikhara, of the square and the round plans, i.e. of the Nāgara and the Vesara types, the Nāgara type predominating.