n8 NORTHERN OR INDO-ARYAN STYLE. BOOK VI. wholly Dravidian in style, but having no affinity, except in plan, with the temple of Papanatha, which is as essentially Indo- Aryan in its architectural arrangements. This, in fact, may be looked upon as the characteristic difference between the styles of Dharwar and Orissa. The western style, from its proximity to the Dravidian and admixture with it, in fact, used pillars freely and with effect whenever wanted ; while their use in Orissa is almost unknown in the best ages of the style, and their introduction, as it took place there, showed only too clearly the necessity that had arisen in the decay of the style, to supply with foreign forms the want of originality of invention. 3 2 3- View of Temple of Papanatha at Pattadakal. (From a Photograph.) The external effect of the building may be judged of from the above woodcut (No. 323). The outline of the tower is not unlike that of the Para^uramej'war temple at Bhuvane^war, with which it was probably contemporary dr. A.D. 700
