Publications, Issue 35Royal Asiatic Society, 1834 |
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... whole of the mechanical arts , is applied commonly , and perhaps by way of pre - eminence , to architecture . B the whole thirty - two , or sixty - four ESSAY ON THE ...
... whole of the mechanical arts , is applied commonly , and perhaps by way of pre - eminence , to architecture . B the whole thirty - two , or sixty - four ESSAY ON THE ...
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Oriental Translation Fund. the whole thirty - two , or sixty - four , if there did exist so many , must have treated principally , if not entirely , of sacred architecture and sculpture . In a series of memorial verses preserved among ...
Oriental Translation Fund. the whole thirty - two , or sixty - four , if there did exist so many , must have treated principally , if not entirely , of sacred architecture and sculpture . In a series of memorial verses preserved among ...
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... whole abounds , are so little understood either by the 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 ...
... whole abounds , are so little understood either by the 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 ...
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... whole process in the construction of images , and of cars and other vehicles in which the gods are carried in procession ; but these subjects are more immediately connected with sculpture and carpentry than with architecture . It may be ...
... whole process in the construction of images , and of cars and other vehicles in which the gods are carried in procession ; but these subjects are more immediately connected with sculpture and carpentry than with architecture . It may be ...
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... whole book of that celebrated work . He is supposed to be one and the same person with him who erected the altar for Dasáratha , and the seeming inconsistency of his being contemporary with Ráma and Chrishna , in two such remote periods ...
... whole book of that celebrated work . He is supposed to be one and the same person with him who erected the altar for Dasáratha , and the seeming inconsistency of his being contemporary with Ráma and Chrishna , in two such remote periods ...
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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.