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Though India’s early wooden architecture has not survived, techniques derived from this tradition influenced later rock-cut and masonary monuments. Among the timber, bamboo and thatch elements that were preserved in later architecture are circular or part circular plans, curved doorways and window openings and domed and barrel-vaulted roof forms.