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 154 NORTHERN OR INDO-ARYAN STYLE. BOOK VI. and to it was added a tomb or cenotaph either by herself or her son. As will be seen from the woodcut (No. 349) it is elegant, though feeble as compared with ancient examples. The Muhammadan dome appears in the background, and the curved Bengali roof in the pavilion in front. The most striking 349- Temple of Sindhia's Mother, Gwaliar. (From a Photograph.) peculiarity of the style is that the .rikharas have nearly lost the graceful curved form, which is the most marked peculiarity of all the ancient examples. As has already been remarked, the straight-lined pyramid first appears in the Takht-i-Sulaiman temple in Kashmir, where its introduction was probably hastened by the wooden straight-lined roofs of the original