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164 the only class of Indian Buddhistic art that has come down through the long procession of the ages in a fair state of completeness.

The noblest monuments of the Hindu period are the temples at Konārak and Bhubaneswar in Puri. The shrine at Konārak is also commonly known as the Black

Fig. 45. Chorten at Darjeeling

Pagoda, this being a name given to it by early navigators to distinguish it from the next landmark along the coast, the temple of Jagannāth at Puri, which was known as the White Pagoda. Built in the thirteenth century A.D., it has excited admiration for over six centuries and has been held to be the finest extant Hindu temple. "There is," writes Sir J. H. Marshall, Director-General of Archaeology