The course and current of architecture; being an historical account of the origin, successive and simultaneous development, relations, periods, and characteristics of its various known styles (1863)
92 THE COURSE AND CURRENT INDIAN. … Buddhist, probably about three or four centuries b.c., which as it still lives, is, perhaps, the oldest practised style in the world being more than 2,000 years in existence. It is, no doubt, the parent of the Indian group of styles, a group which stands completely alone, entirely separated from…
Architecture -- History
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