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 Bengal. From this time, religiously, and in consequence æsthetically, Nepal had no real sympathies with India, and became almost unconsciously more closely associated with the great and growing Buddhist communities of Tibet and China. In these circumstances it is natural that the later temples of the Valley should show strong Chinese influences, and that the ornamentation of the two countries should display features which are most strikingly similar in motive and method of expression. The architecture of Nepal may therefore, be broadly consigned to two great styles, the "Chaitya" and the "Pagoda," but there is one other form occasionally present which may be briefly referred to. A few religious edifices are to be seen of the typically Hindu character, as found in India, and described by Fergusson as "a square tower-like temple, with a perpendicular base, but a curvilinear outline above," which this authority suggests are originally of "Daysu" or aborigine source. This style of building is, however, not common, and merely serves to indicate the spiritual