Stella Kramrisch (1946). 《The Hindu Temple》. Motilal Banarsidass. 135, context: 40–43, 110–114, 129–139 with footnotes쪽. ISBN978-81-208-0223-0., Quote: "The [Hindu] temple is the seat and dwelling of God, according to the majority of the [Indian] names" (p. 135); "The temple as Vimana, proportionately measured throughout, is the house and body of God" (p. 133).
George Michell (1977). 《The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to Its Meaning and Forms》. University of Chicago Press. 61–62쪽. ISBN978-0-226-53230-1.; Quote: "The Hindu temple is designed to bring about contact between man and the gods" (...) "The architecture of the Hindu temple symbolically represents this quest by setting out to dissolve the boundaries between man and the divine".
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Several books and journal articles have documented the effect on Hindu temples of Islam's arrival in South Asia and Southeast Asia:* Gaborieau, Marc (1985). “From Al-Beruni to Jinnah: idiom, ritual and ideology of the Hindu-Muslim confrontation in South Asia”. 《Anthropology Today》 (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) 1 (3): 7–14. doi:10.2307/3033123. JSTOR3033123.* Eaton, Richard (2000). “Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States”. 《Journal of Islamic Studies》 11 (3): 283–319. doi:10.1093/jis/11.3.283.* Annemarie Schimmel, Islam in the Indian Subcontinent, ISBN978-9004061170, Brill Academic, Chapter 1* Robert W. Hefner, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia, Princeton University Press, ISBN978-0691050461, pp. 28-29.
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Several books and journal articles have documented the effect on Hindu temples of Islam's arrival in South Asia and Southeast Asia:* Gaborieau, Marc (1985). “From Al-Beruni to Jinnah: idiom, ritual and ideology of the Hindu-Muslim confrontation in South Asia”. 《Anthropology Today》 (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) 1 (3): 7–14. doi:10.2307/3033123. JSTOR3033123.* Eaton, Richard (2000). “Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States”. 《Journal of Islamic Studies》 11 (3): 283–319. doi:10.1093/jis/11.3.283.* Annemarie Schimmel, Islam in the Indian Subcontinent, ISBN978-9004061170, Brill Academic, Chapter 1* Robert W. Hefner, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia, Princeton University Press, ISBN978-0691050461, pp. 28-29.