The University of Nalanda c17.53

c17.53

Can this temple be the Brass-temple referred to by Hiuen Tsiang’s biographer?² The reasons for this suggestion are:—(1) the structure built of stone could well bear the weight of brass-plates, (2) such a brass canopy would be a fitting finish to a temple which was so richly decorated with ornamentations, (3) the temple is just in the neighbourhood of the monastery which is perhaps the monastery built by Harṣa (the King of Central India).³ Lastly, the panels of the plinth, according to Spooner,⁴ are assignable to about the sixth or seventh century A.D., which is exactly the time, when the temple was built by Harṣa.