MADURAI

A writer has described the architecture as follows:

"The Architecture is almost purely Dravidian-its characteristic being the pyramidal towers of colossal height dominating the surrounding landscape for miles around; the rectangular enclosures one within the other like a China box; the use of the flat roof and the entire absence of the arch or dome; delicate sculpture worked in ponderous material, and finally a partiality for long galleries interspersed with sculptured pillars."

The writer of the District Gazetteer has remarked that the temple is an aimless aggregate of parts that seem to have been added as time are circumstance dictated during a long course of time, rather than in a cordance with the requirements of a deliberately set plan, and hence lacks unity of plan and fails in effect." This is often the impression the casual tourist, who is led along obscure passages by incompetent guides and shown one marvel after another in rapid succession without having the relation to one another clearly explained.

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