Publications, Issue 35Royal Asiatic Society, 1834 |
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Page 17
... sides , accompanied with invocations for the prosperity of the builder . The soil is then ploughed , certain ceremonies prescribed for this occasion also being observed . The fourth chapter of the Mánasára contains rules for the ...
... sides , accompanied with invocations for the prosperity of the builder . The soil is then ploughed , certain ceremonies prescribed for this occasion also being observed . The fourth chapter of the Mánasára contains rules for the ...
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... sides will indicate the east and west . " The text goes on with repeating a similar process for ascertaining the intermediate points . Some treatises require the first circle to be described around the gnomon , not previous to making ...
... sides will indicate the east and west . " The text goes on with repeating a similar process for ascertaining the intermediate points . Some treatises require the first circle to be described around the gnomon , not previous to making ...
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... side than to the other ; and in this situation it very much resembles the cavetto , A pat'tá or pat❜tica ( 7 ) signifies a band . It is often confounded with the moulding called vájina , especially in pedestals and bases , as it ...
... side than to the other ; and in this situation it very much resembles the cavetto , A pat'tá or pat❜tica ( 7 ) signifies a band . It is often confounded with the moulding called vájina , especially in pedestals and bases , as it ...
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... sides , rudracánta ; that which has five sides , sivacánta ; and that which has six sides , s'chanda- cánta . " The whole shaft may be of the same form , or in pillars of other forms , than square ; the bottom , middle , and top may be ...
... sides , rudracánta ; that which has five sides , sivacánta ; and that which has six sides , s'chanda- cánta . " The whole shaft may be of the same form , or in pillars of other forms , than square ; the bottom , middle , and top may be ...
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... sides of the capital are made either in the form of an inverted apex or of a chacra , wheel , or circle . " It is one diameter in height , and projects but three- quarters of the diameter . There is not any particular rule respecting ...
... sides of the capital are made either in the form of an inverted apex or of a chacra , wheel , or circle . " It is one diameter in height , and projects but three- quarters of the diameter . There is not any particular rule respecting ...
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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.