Publications, Issue 35Royal Asiatic Society, 1834 |
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... contain a single architectural term , and the best of our workmen have been so long disused to their own ancient style of building durable public edifices , that it is not to be wondered at they should now ascribe their ignorance of the ...
... contain a single architectural term , and the best of our workmen have been so long disused to their own ancient style of building durable public edifices , that it is not to be wondered at they should now ascribe their ignorance of the ...
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... contain little more than the titles of the works in question , and which are mostly patronymics of the deities who were believed to have revealed the particular art or arts on which each work treated , or of the authors of the treatises ...
... contain little more than the titles of the works in question , and which are mostly patronymics of the deities who were believed to have revealed the particular art or arts on which each work treated , or of the authors of the treatises ...
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... subjects contained in this work , a particular description is given of the contents of each adhyaya as taken from the preface . The B 2 but the portion I have in my possession contains no ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS . 3.
... subjects contained in this work , a particular description is given of the contents of each adhyaya as taken from the preface . The B 2 but the portion I have in my possession contains no ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS . 3.
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... contains rules and directions for constructing a gnomon , for the purpose of determining the several points of the compass . The seventh treats of the parts into which the ground - plan of the cities , towns , temples , palaces and ...
... contains rules and directions for constructing a gnomon , for the purpose of determining the several points of the compass . The seventh treats of the parts into which the ground - plan of the cities , towns , temples , palaces and ...
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... contain ample information respecting the whole process in the construction of images , and of cars and other vehicles in which the gods are carried in procession ; but these subjects are more immediately connected with sculpture and ...
... contain ample information respecting the whole process in the construction of images , and of cars and other vehicles in which the gods are carried in procession ; but these subjects are more immediately connected with sculpture and ...
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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.