[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.c46.203 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.203 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.203 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c46.203](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.203) Ter has along attracted the attention of archaeologists. In 1901 Cousens visited the site and described in detail the monuments thereof (\*ASI—AR 1902-3\*), including the temple of Trivikrameśvara which is one of the earliest structural \*caitya\* of early period now extant in the Deccan. It comprises a shrine and a flat-roofed \*maṇḍapa\*, the former being the original \*caitya\*. Though brick-built, it has lost many of its details because of heavy applications of stucco. Even the \*maṇḍapa\* is rather late. On the basis of other evidence and the placing of sculptured slabs in the walls of later Jaina temples at Ter Cousens rightly suspected the existence of an early \*stūpa\*. - [Previous: v2.c46.202](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.202) - [Next: v2.c46.204](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.204) - [Up: v2.c46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.203](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.203) · Pramāṇa