Q. “Trabeate” or “Corbelled” in the Medieval India referred to:
Answer: a style of joining horizontal and vertical beams of roofs , doors and windows.
Notes: Between the seventh and tenth centuries architects started adding more rooms, doors and windows to buildings. Roofs, doors and windows were still made by placing a horizontal beam across two vertical columns, a style of architecture called "trabeate" or "corbelled". Between the eighth and thirteenth centuries the trabeate style was used in the construction of temples, mosques, tombs and in buildings attached to large stepped-wells (baolis).