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... height of the pillar , " continues the first - mentioned author , " be divided into twelve , eleven , ten , nine , or eight parts , and one be taken for the breadth of the foot of the ... diameters high ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS . 29.
... height of the pillar , " continues the first - mentioned author , " be divided into twelve , eleven , ten , nine , or eight parts , and one be taken for the breadth of the foot of the ... diameters high ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS . 29.
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Oriental Translation Fund. The first sort * is a column six diameters high ; it is rarely made but upon a high base and pedestal . The entablature is more than half the altitude of the column ; and the intercolumniation generally four ...
Oriental Translation Fund. The first sort * is a column six diameters high ; it is rarely made but upon a high base and pedestal . The entablature is more than half the altitude of the column ; and the intercolumniation generally four ...
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Oriental Translation Fund. The second sort of column is seven diameters in height ; it is placed in most examples upon a base and pedestal ; the base is two diameters high ; it belongs to the species called cumbhandha . ( See Plate II ...
Oriental Translation Fund. The second sort of column is seven diameters in height ; it is placed in most examples upon a base and pedestal ; the base is two diameters high ; it belongs to the species called cumbhandha . ( See Plate II ...
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... measuring the intercolumniations is , I am inclined to believe , applicable to the pilasters in gateways or temples only , not to simple colonnades . The third sort of column , with its base and capital , is eight diameters high , with ...
... measuring the intercolumniations is , I am inclined to believe , applicable to the pilasters in gateways or temples only , not to simple colonnades . The third sort of column , with its base and capital , is eight diameters high , with ...
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... diameters below the capital , being divided into twenty - four parts , three are given to the collarino with its fillet , three to the ovolo , three to the lower collarino , five to ... diameters high . ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS . 33.
... diameters below the capital , being divided into twenty - four parts , three are given to the collarino with its fillet , three to the ovolo , three to the lower collarino , five to ... diameters high . ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS . 33.
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a-quarter angulas Arabic architecture architrave artists Brahmans breadth building called campa cant'ha capital capóta Cásyapa cavetto chapter chunam cima recta cimbia collarino column contains cornice cupola dandás Day & Haghe deities Demy Octavo Demy Quarto diameters high edifice entablature equal in height erected fillet five given gnomon gnomon projects gópura Gopura consisting Grecian half hastha Hindú architects History Honourable India Indian architecture intercolumniations latter Lithographed lotus lower Madras Mánasára mantapa middle moulding Octavo ornaments ovolo padma Paul of Aleppo pedestals and bases Persian pillar pinnacle Plate plinth points porticoes prastara projection proportions pyramidal Quarto resembles respect Royal Asiatic Society rules sculpture seven shaft sides Siva Society by Day sorts Sri Rangam STANISLAS JULIEN sthapati stone streets temples thickness three and a-half three-quarters torus translated by Professor treatises twelve stories upper base village VIMÁNA CONSISTING Vishnu whole William Ouseley ם ם ם
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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.