Early Indian Architecture: I. Cities and City-Gates, etc.; II. Bodhi-gharas c2: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: Essays in Early Indian Architecture
Early Indian Architecture: I. Cities and City-Gates, etc.; II. Bodhi-gharas c2
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: Essays in Early Indian Architecture
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Edited and with an Introduction by
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Michael W. Meister
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Copyright © Rama P. Coomaraswamy 1992 Introduction © M.W. Meister
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Some idea of the appearance of such an ancient Indian university may be gathered from Hsüan Tsang’s description. . . . ‘One gate,’ he says, ‘opens into the great college, from which are separated eight other halls, standing in the middle of the monastery. The richly adorned towers, and the fairy-like turrets, like pointed hill-tops, are congregated together. The observatories seem to be lost in the mists of morning, and the upper rooms tower above the clouds. . . . All the outside courts, in which are the priests’ chambers, are of four stages. The stages have dragon eaves; the pearl-red pillars, carved and ornamented, the richly adorned balustrades, and the roofs covered with tiles that reflect the light in a thousand shades, these things add to the beauty. . . .’
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Coomaraswamy, *The Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon*, Edinburgh, 1913, pp. 113-114.