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 CHAP. I. SIKHARAS AND PLANS 89 and civilisation, and over which the languages spoken are of Sanskritic descent. If this reservation is always borne in mind, I know of no term that more conveniently expresses the characteristics of this style, and it is consequently proposed to adopt it in the following pages as the name of the style that prevailed among the Hindus in northern India, between the Himalaya and Vindhya mountains, and even much further south, from the 7th century to the present day. 309. Dravidian and Indo-Aryan Temples at Pattadakal. (From a Photograph.) The general appearance of the northern temples, and the points of difference between them and those of the south, will be appreciated from the above woodcut (No. 309), representing two very ancient temples, built in juxtaposition at Pattadakal, in Bijapur district. That on the left is a complete specimen of Dravidian architecture (ante> vol. i. p. 355). There is the same pyramidal form, the same distinction of storeys, the same cells on each, as we find at Mamallapuram (Woodcut No. 185), at Tanjor (Woodcut No. 213), or at Madura (Woodcut No. 195). The right-hand temple that of Galaganath, to the north-west of Sangame^var's is Indo-Aryan of somewhat later date, and in which, on the contrary, the outline of the pyramid is curvilinear ; no trace of division of storeys is observable, no reminiscence of habitations and no pillars or pilasters any-