Publications, Issue 35Royal Asiatic Society, 1834 |
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... Mánasára , is the most perfect I have seen , and perhaps the most perfect on the subject that now exists . It is stated to be the production of a sage named Mánasára , and is of great celebrity in the south of India , as affording ...
... Mánasára , is the most perfect I have seen , and perhaps the most perfect on the subject that now exists . It is stated to be the production of a sage named Mánasára , and is of great celebrity in the south of India , as affording ...
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... Mánasára in the main arrangement of the subjects . It opens with the mystical rites per- formed in honour of the Vástu , or the spirit presiding over the ground on which buildings are erected , and proceeds to give rules for the ...
... Mánasára in the main arrangement of the subjects . It opens with the mystical rites per- formed in honour of the Vástu , or the spirit presiding over the ground on which buildings are erected , and proceeds to give rules for the ...
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... Mánasára , but the arrange- ment is somewhat different . It commences with the description of the several sorts of soil which are considered proper for buildings , and pro- ceeds to the preparatory rites and sacrifices to be performed ...
... Mánasára , but the arrange- ment is somewhat different . It commences with the description of the several sorts of soil which are considered proper for buildings , and pro- ceeds to the preparatory rites and sacrifices to be performed ...
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... Mánasára , the largest at present of my collection . As I have but a few detached pieces of the other works mentioned above , they do not appear to call for any distinct notice . Some of these pieces are descriptive of the construction ...
... Mánasára , the largest at present of my collection . As I have but a few detached pieces of the other works mentioned above , they do not appear to call for any distinct notice . Some of these pieces are descriptive of the construction ...
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... Mánasára , * the sage to whom the first treatise is attributed , I have not been able to procure any distinct historical notice ; but , as has already been mentioned , the supposed authors of the other treatises , entitled Cásyapa and ...
... Mánasára , * the sage to whom the first treatise is attributed , I have not been able to procure any distinct historical notice ; but , as has already been mentioned , the supposed authors of the other treatises , entitled Cásyapa 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.