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Illustrations of various styles of Indian architecture : a series of fifteen photographs of some of the most important buildings in India erected between B.C. 250 and A.D. 1830, with a lecture on the study of Indian architecture, read at a meeting of the Society of Arts, on 19th December, 1866 (1869)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 author · London : Printed for the use of schools of art in the United Kingdom · leaf 78

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E STUDY OF This enabled a prophet called Sakya Muni, or now generally known as Buddha, to call upon the aboriginal races, and ulti¬ mately to convert the whole of Northern India to the religion that bears his name. It was not, however, till 300 years after his death, which happened in 543, that… … Facade of Cave in Behar (temp. Asuka, rs.c. '250). hour there is not a native-born Buddhist in India, and but for the monuments we might almost be allowed to doubt its prevalence. It is with this religion, and this king Asoka, that our architectural history begins in India. Before his time we have…

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