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CHAP. II. PLANS. 321 cut examples naturally give us no information on this subject, but the presumption certainly is, looking at their extreme appropriateness in that climate, that they had this appendage, sometimes at least, though not perhaps usually. If from this temple at Aihole we pass to the neighbouring Saiva one of Papanatha at Pattadakal, built probably not very much later, we find that we have passed the boundary line that separates the ancient from the mediaeval architecture of India, in so far at least as plans are concerned (Woodcut No. 182). The circular forms of the Buddhists have entirely disappeared, and the cell has become the base of a square tower, as it VOL. I. X
