Publications, Issue 35Royal Asiatic Society, 1834 |
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Page iii
... design , have for ages been the objects of admiration to the traveller in the East ; and , though it had long been known , pro- verbially , that the Hindus possessed treatises on architecture of a very ancient date , pescribing the ...
... design , have for ages been the objects of admiration to the traveller in the East ; and , though it had long been known , pro- verbially , that the Hindus possessed treatises on architecture of a very ancient date , pescribing the ...
Page xiv
... with corresponding designs . " Wishing you and your family every success and prosperity in life , " I remain , " Sir , " Your most obedient and faithful servant , ( Signed ) “ Rám Ráz . ” ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS . It is true.
... with corresponding designs . " Wishing you and your family every success and prosperity in life , " I remain , " Sir , " Your most obedient and faithful servant , ( Signed ) “ Rám Ráz . ” ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS . It is true.
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... designs themselves ( Plate I. ) , it would be superfluous to specify them in this place . To enable the reader , however , to form a judgment on the original rules from which the drawings are made , the fol- lowing extracts respecting ...
... designs themselves ( Plate I. ) , it would be superfluous to specify them in this place . To enable the reader , however , to form a judgment on the original rules from which the drawings are made , the fol- lowing extracts respecting ...
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... designs of twenty - eight sorts of bases , with the heights and projections of all their parts therein notified . OF PILLARS . The fifteenth chapter of the Mánasára treats of the several sorts of pillars , their various dimensions ...
... designs of twenty - eight sorts of bases , with the heights and projections of all their parts therein notified . OF PILLARS . The fifteenth chapter of the Mánasára treats of the several sorts of pillars , their various dimensions ...
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... designs , partly taken from his descriptions , and partly from the models found in temples and porticoes of a pure Hindú style . Pillars of Indian architecture may , with respect to the dimensions , be divided into seven sorts . The ...
... designs , partly taken from his descriptions , and partly from the models found in temples and porticoes of a pure Hindú style . Pillars of Indian architecture may , with respect to the dimensions , be divided into seven sorts . The ...
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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.