[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c31.56 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c31.56 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c31.56 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.56) Among the structures exposed in the Malwa levels the most interesting was the 'religious complex'. It comprised, besides the residential houses or rooms closely connected with the complex, a large mud platform with a channel cut into it and ending in a soak-pit meant to be used for ablution purposes, and six or seven types of sacrificial altars including an apsidal mud-wall structure, perhaps a sacrificial temple, an altar comprising a series of mud rings, a heart-shaped altar, an oval-shaped altar with a sunken floor, an oval-shaped altar with rounded sides, a rectangular altar and a U-shaped fire-pit. - [Previous: v2.c31.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.55) - [Next: v2.c31.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.57) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.56) · Pramāṇa