Publications, Issue 35Royal Asiatic Society, 1834 |
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... artists or the pundits of the present day , that it requires no ordinary exertion to comprehend and explain the exact import of even a single section . The first work , entitled Mánasára , is the most perfect I have seen , and perhaps ...
... artists or the pundits of the present day , that it requires no ordinary exertion to comprehend and explain the exact import of even a single section . The first work , entitled Mánasára , is the most perfect I have seen , and perhaps ...
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... artists , said to have been descended from Viswacarma , and to have followed respectively the occupations of sculptors , joiners , braziers , jewellers , and blacksmiths . The third , fourth , and fifth chapters explain the nature and ...
... artists , said to have been descended from Viswacarma , and to have followed respectively the occupations of sculptors , joiners , braziers , jewellers , and blacksmiths . The third , fourth , and fifth chapters explain the nature and ...
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... artists of the several kinds , and which is traced to Viswacarma the heavenly architect . This personage is stated to have had four heads , probably in allusion to the supernatural talents with which he was endowed , and to his ...
... artists of the several kinds , and which is traced to Viswacarma the heavenly architect . This personage is stated to have had four heads , probably in allusion to the supernatural talents with which he was endowed , and to his ...
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... artists of India is proverbial . The third chapter of the Mánasára professes to treat of the nature and qualities of the ground on which buildings are to be erected . It opens with the definition of vástu , a term used to express the ...
... artists of India is proverbial . The third chapter of the Mánasára professes to treat of the nature and qualities of the ground on which buildings are to be erected . It opens with the definition of vástu , a term used to express the ...
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... artists , and the most finished specimens of them may be justly said to surpass any thing of the kind in the Grecian or Roman orders , both in the beauty of their propor- tions and richness of their ornaments . The several mouldings ...
... artists , and the most finished specimens of them may be justly said to surpass any thing of the kind in the Grecian or Roman orders , both in the beauty of their propor- tions and richness of their ornaments . The several mouldings ...
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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.