A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c21.44

c21.44

Very different from Ladh Khān is the Durgā temple (Pl. IVa), which was another experiment seeking to adapt the Buddhist *caitya* to a brahminical temple. This temple, perhaps of the sixth century, is an apsidal structure (60 feet by 36 feet) with a large portico 24 feet deep on its eastern front making its entire length 84 feet. The temple stands on a high plinth with many mouldings. The top of its flat roof is 30 feet from the ground. A *śikhara* rises above the *garbhagriha* in the apse and there is a verandah roofed with sloping slabs carried on massive square columns with heavy brackets and this forms the *pradakshiṇa* path.