The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s6.16

c13.s6.16

It may not be difficult to connect the architecture and sculpture of Champā with those of India. The theme of the figures, of course, is Hindu and their forms also could not but be derived in the main and originally from Indian executions. As regards the buildings, the temples also, in spite of great difference in details their forms may be described as having some family likeness with the Hindu temples, e.g., of South India and of Buddhist *vihāras*. The influence of the *śilpaśāstras* may then have to be detected in the Champā art also.⁵⁸