🛕Buddhist Temple Fort Kochi

“For modern Indians, the history of Fort Kochi begins with the Portuguese. But before the floods created a mouth at Fort Kochi, this was solid land where Buddhism flourished. In his book, The History of Fort Cochin , K.L. Bernard has written extensively about the period between the 1st Century BCE and 2nd Century CE when Buddhists lived here and had their temples.” He attributes more antiquity to these stones because, “European pillars are round, whereas these are hexagonal like temple pillars.”

- The Hindu