The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.105

c30.105

But architecture was practised on a magnificent scale. Although most of the innumerable buildings erected were destroyed during the centuries of Muhammadan rule, even the small fraction surviving is enough to prove that the Hindu architects were able to plan with grandeur and to execute with a lavishness of detail which compels admiration while inviting hostile criticism by its excess of cloying ornament.