The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s3.21

c7.s3.21

The *Purāṇas* say that the temple was of bricks. At later periods Jaina and Buddhistic shrines grew up round about the ancient Hindu temples. The *Purāṇas* also mention this. However sceptical we be in regard to the foregoing reconstruction of Rāma's biography, we may concede that a thorough excavation of the mounds and sites located in accordance with the *Purāṇic* descriptions is likely to reveal ancient Hindu relics.