moamarias

Updated: June 26, 2025

The temples are long, low, wooden buildings, covered by roofs of corrugated iron or thatched, and containing inside a nave with two rows of wooden pillars which leads to a sanctuary divided from it by a screen. The third sect are the Moamarias, of political rather than religious importance.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2