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Page xi
... and a partial knowledge of astronomy and medicine ; but our architecture , sculpture , painting , & c . have been for ages confined to a class of people C whom our ancient legislators have ranked amongst the lower orders P R E F A СЕ . xi.
... and a partial knowledge of astronomy and medicine ; but our architecture , sculpture , painting , & c . have been for ages confined to a class of people C whom our ancient legislators have ranked amongst the lower orders P R E F A СЕ . xi.
Page xii
Oriental Translation Fund. whom our ancient legislators have ranked amongst the lower orders of society . This class , perhaps , jealous of the Bráhmans , whose sacerdotal authority they have always opposed with a spirit of independence ...
Oriental Translation Fund. whom our ancient legislators have ranked amongst the lower orders of society . This class , perhaps , jealous of the Bráhmans , whose sacerdotal authority they have always opposed with a spirit of independence ...
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... lower class from occupying the ground suited to the higher , and vice versa , on pain of incurring the severest vengeance of heaven ; but the principle on which these distinctions are founded is altogether nugatory . It signifies little ...
... lower class from occupying the ground suited to the higher , and vice versa , on pain of incurring the severest vengeance of heaven ; but the principle on which these distinctions are founded is altogether nugatory . It signifies little ...
Page 18
... lower to the higher end , with a slight indenture about the middle . The inverted piece at the lower end of the stilt or handle should be nine angulas long , two broad , and one and a half thick . The mould - board should be twenty ...
... lower to the higher end , with a slight indenture about the middle . The inverted piece at the lower end of the stilt or handle should be nine angulas long , two broad , and one and a half thick . The mould - board should be twenty ...
Page 31
... lower part of the head of the bódhica is one - third of the upper in breadth , and a third of the former being divided into five parts , one of them is given to the cavetto , one to the fillet , two to the cima , and one to the listel ...
... lower part of the head of the bódhica is one - third of the upper in breadth , and a third of the former being divided into five parts , one of them is given to the cavetto , one to the fillet , two to the cima , and one to the listel ...
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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.