Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.11

c9.11

In a description of the palace of the Chakravartī king Mahā-Sudassana, some details of palace architecture are found. Its height was equal to three *puruṣa* measures, it had bricks of four kinds, pillars 84000 in number, wooden planks of four colours, staircases, cross-bars, copings, rooms (*Kūṭāgāra*), with beds of gold, silver, ivory and crystal; doors (*Dvāra*) with palm trees on two sides, a double railing round the palace, a net-work of jingling bells and several ponds of lotus flowers (*Pokkharaṇī*) provided with staircases and platforms (*Mahā-Sudassana Sutta*, *Dīgha Nikāya*).