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... - * Ráj or Rája , according to the Sanscrit pronunciation : Ráz or Ráza , according to the pronunciation of the same term in the vernacular languages of the South of India . guage . He was first attached to one of the vi PREFACE .
... - * Ráj or Rája , according to the Sanscrit pronunciation : Ráz or Ráza , according to the pronunciation of the same term in the vernacular languages of the South of India . guage . He was first attached to one of the vi PREFACE .
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... south of India , as affording copious information on every branch of the art on which he treats , but particularly on that of building sacred edifices ; and it is often consulted by the artists as the highest authority for the solution ...
... south of India , as affording copious information on every branch of the art on which he treats , but particularly on that of building sacred edifices ; and it is often consulted by the artists as the highest authority for the solution ...
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... South of India , there appears indeed no reason to doubt , for they seem to have been the standards by which the exist- ing religious structures were reared throughout this part of the peninsula . The most interesting circumstance ...
... South of India , there appears indeed no reason to doubt , for they seem to have been the standards by which the exist- ing religious structures were reared throughout this part of the peninsula . The most interesting circumstance ...
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... South of India . But some learned men to whom I mentioned this circumstance , rather than concur in an opinion which detracts from the antiquity of these works , are inclined to think that the passages in question are modern ...
... South of India . But some learned men to whom I mentioned this circumstance , rather than concur in an opinion which detracts from the antiquity of these works , are inclined to think that the passages in question are modern ...
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... South , were derived from the North , the earliest seat of the Hindú empire as well as of arts and sciences , and that the southern peninsula was before that period a vast uncultivated forest , inhabited by small insulated tribes ...
... South , were derived from the North , the earliest seat of the Hindú empire as well as of arts and sciences , and that the southern peninsula was before that period a vast uncultivated forest , inhabited by small insulated tribes ...
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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.