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... Silpa Sástra are very scarce in this part of the country ; and even the few scattered fragments that can be had are scarcely intelligible to our best educated pundits , as they are so full of memorial verses and technical terms , that ...
... Silpa Sástra are very scarce in this part of the country ; and even the few scattered fragments that can be had are scarcely intelligible to our best educated pundits , as they are so full of memorial verses and technical terms , that ...
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... Silpa Sástra , and with which we have no immediate concern , ) I might , without any exaggeration , affirm that the whole is no more intelligible than the darkest oracles are , at least , to those who are unacquainted with the science ...
... Silpa Sástra , and with which we have no immediate concern , ) I might , without any exaggeration , affirm that the whole is no more intelligible than the darkest oracles are , at least , to those who are unacquainted with the science ...
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... Silpa Sástra of the Hindús is correctly illustrated and laid before the public , the question as to whether the art owes its origin to the one or the other of the two countries must remain problematical . " Whilst the subject of my ...
... Silpa Sástra of the Hindús is correctly illustrated and laid before the public , the question as to whether the art owes its origin to the one or the other of the two countries must remain problematical . " Whilst the subject of my ...
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... Silpa Sástra , as from the similarity of the contents of the remains of several of these treatises , and which will be hereafter noticed , there is reason to think that * From silpa , manual art , and sástra , science . This term ...
... Silpa Sástra , as from the similarity of the contents of the remains of several of these treatises , and which will be hereafter noticed , there is reason to think that * From silpa , manual art , and sástra , science . This term ...
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... Silpa Sástra ; and every artist proverbially knows that there have been thirty - two principal , and as many subordinate works on this subject . In a Tamil controversial work entitled Iru - samaya - villacam , or " the illustration of ...
... Silpa Sástra ; and every artist proverbially knows that there have been thirty - two principal , and as many subordinate works on this subject . In a Tamil controversial work entitled Iru - samaya - villacam , or " the illustration of ...
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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.