Publications, Issue 35Royal Asiatic Society, 1834 |
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... Cásyapa , Vayghánasa , Sacaládhicára , Viswacarmiya , Sanatcumára , Sáras- watyam , Pancharatram , and others included in both the lists , are still occasionally , though rarely , to be met with in Southern India ; and not- withstanding ...
... Cásyapa , Vayghánasa , Sacaládhicára , Viswacarmiya , Sanatcumára , Sáras- watyam , Pancharatram , and others included in both the lists , are still occasionally , though rarely , to be met with in Southern India ; and not- withstanding ...
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... Cásyapa , is attributed to the sage it bears , a personage celebrated in sacred writings of great antiquity . He is considered as one of the progenitors of mankind , and ranked the first amongst the seven holy men who were preserved ...
... Cásyapa , is attributed to the sage it bears , a personage celebrated in sacred writings of great antiquity . He is considered as one of the progenitors of mankind , and ranked the first amongst the seven holy men who were preserved ...
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... Cásyapa , and as the work itself is included among the subordinate treatises enumerated in the list , it appears to be comparatively a modern per- formance . It opens with an encomium on the land of Bharata , * as being * India ...
... Cásyapa , and as the work itself is included among the subordinate treatises enumerated in the list , it appears to be comparatively a modern per- formance . It opens with an encomium on the land of Bharata , * as being * India ...
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... Cásyapa and Máyámata , are , under these names , greatly celebrated in the Puránas and other sacred writings of antiquity . That all these treatises were composed in the South of India , there appears indeed no reason to doubt , for ...
... Cásyapa and Máyámata , are , under these names , greatly celebrated in the Puránas and other sacred writings of antiquity . That all these treatises were composed in the South of India , there appears indeed no reason to doubt , for ...
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... Cásyapa , for the purpose of ascertaining the solidity of the ground on which the foun- dation is to be laid . Having dug a pit a hasta in depth , in the middle of the ground , return the earth into it , and according to the space which ...
... Cásyapa , for the purpose of ascertaining the solidity of the ground on which the foun- dation is to be laid . Having dug a pit a hasta in depth , in the middle of the ground , return the earth into it , and according to the space which ...
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Page 21 - ... proportions of symmetry." (p. 15.) The third chapter treats of the nature and quality of ground on which buildings are to be erected ; it is very copious and very curious. Minute directions are given for constructing a plough, and for ploughing the ground on which the house is to be built. This being done, " let sesamum seeds, pulse, and kidneybeans be sown, with incantations pronounced over them; and let due reverence be paid to the spiritual teacher ; and let the oxen, and the plough to which...
Page 17 - Wo to them who dwell in a house not built according to the proportions of symmetry. in building an edifice, therefore, let all its parts, from the basement to the roof, be duly considered.
Page 18 - The ground to be avoided is described in a special manner as follows : " That which has the form of a circle, a semicircle, containing three, five, or six angles, resembling a trident or a winnow, shaped like the hinder part of a fish, or the back of an elephant, or a turtle, or the face of a cow, and the like ; situated opposite to any of the intermediate quarters northwest, and the like ; abounding with human sculls, stones, worms, ant-hills, ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS.