The ancient and medieval architecture of India: a study of Indo-Aryan civilisation
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THE MANDAPAM 39 epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata ; to take part in musical festivals,and tolistento thetalesof the V\\\2. ...
40 ANTIQUITY OF HINDU CRAFT TRADITIONS conception of law and order than that which they seek to establish. The Manasira, as summ ...
ANTIQUITY OF HINDU CRAFT TRADITIONS 41 for so many centuries. The fact that the earliest have not hitherto been discovered is on ...
42 BRAHMA and VISHNU SHRINES Whenthe Manasara Silpa-sistra gives directions for the placing of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva shrines ...
VISHNU SHRINES 43 thatthe"Vishnu " shrineisas ancientas anyother —viz. that miniature shrines of thistypeare constantlybeing dug ...
44 SIVA SHRINES facing west,ortowardsthesettingsun,andthe roofis of what Fergusson calls the Dravidian type — i.e. it is crowned ...
ARYAN INSPIRATION IN INDIA 45 It is equallyfallacious toassume,as Dr. Coomaraswamy has also done,' that Indo-Aryans borrowed mos ...
CHAPTER IV THE STUPA AND ITS SYMBOLISM The previous chapters will enable the reader to put in its properplaceinIndian architectu ...
THE STUPA 47 memorials of the dead associated with the practice of burial instead of cremation. It maybe observed that even in t ...
48 THE STUPA indicates better the austerity of early Buddhist ritual, and, making allowance forthefactthattherailsareonlycarved ...
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THE STUPA 49 onlythe Buddhists calledthem Buddha,Sangha,andDharma, instead ofBrahm^, Vishnu,andSiva,accordingtotheorthodox Brahm ...
50 BUDDHIST SYMBOLISM wastransformedintothepyramidalTee(fig. 15), whichwasonly the BuddhistandJain equivalent symbolforthemystic ...
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BUDDHIST SYMBOLISM 51 but a popular sentiment like that of hero-worship could be spiritualised and prevented from sinking into g ...
52 BUDDHIST SYMBOLISM symbolofthesun,asrepresentingthecosmicsoul-force,butevery Aryanin performingtheriteofpradakshini roundhis ...
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