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- less varied (rosettes being the favourite). In some modern 
temples, the front of the sanctum is painted, as in Brndavan- 
candra of Guptipara. 
In the roofs, however, a great diversity is observed, a 
Roofs iversity with such large differences 
: that the latter serve to classify the vari- 
ous temples in Bengal. They may be broadly divided into :— 
A. 
curved, in some domical, in others flatter, but never straight or 
pyramidal; and secondly the coverings have eaves drawn out 
rapid draining of rains, so heavy in Lower Bengal. ea 
The simplest variety is more or less domical, ending in a 
spire only, e.g., the Puri temple on the 
tlgg brad Markanda tank, first half of the 
side by a lion on its haunches. The stone temple of Garui, dis- 
trict Bardwan, now without its spire and half the dome, ap- 
parently belongs to this variety.! 
Further development is marked by the substitution either of 
a spired tower or of a spired duplicate - 
onthe roof. Inthe tower form the pyra- 
midal top reminds one of the Orissan porch; and in several western 
2. One-towered. 
a 
A.D.) built by Raja Rameévara Datt,* and in the Rameandra of 
Guptipara,> built acording to tradition towards the end of 
the intervening steps, if any, cannot be 
3- Multi-towered. traced, as in the existing remains the 
1 See figure 1. 2 See figure 2. 
8 A.S.R., vol. viii, p. 204, Nos. 9, 5 and 14; of, Ar. S, Ind., 1903-4, 
pp. 2. 
"4 A Short Account of the Sudramani Rajas, 1902, or enlarged, The 
si inory of the Bansberia Raj, 1907 
re 3. 
