araiostyle

Updated: May 20, 2025

I have therefore ventured to call it the Arian order a name to which it has a double right; first, because it was the style of the Aryas, or Arians, of Kashmir; and, secondly, because its intercolumniations are always of four diameters an interval which the Greeks called Araiostyle. Extract from Vigne's "Travels in Kashmir." The Hindu temple of Marttand is commonly called the House of the Pandus.

William Henry Knight - Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet