[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [History of Indian and Eastern Architecture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.fergusson-1876) › v1.c19.s8.8 # History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c19.s8.8 History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c19.s8.8 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.fergusson-1876.v1.c19.s8.8) The general effect of such a design as this may be gathered from the bird’s-eye view (Woodcut No. 217). As an artistic design, nothing can be worse. The gateways, irregularly spaced in a great blank wall, lose half their dignity from their positions; and the bathos of their decreasing in size and elaboration, as they approach the sanctuary, is a mistake which nothing can redeem. We may admire beauty of detail, and be astonished at the elaboration and evidence of labour, if they are found in such a temple as this, but as an architectural design it is altogether detestable. - [Previous: v1.c19.s8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.fergusson-1876.v1.c19.s8.7) - [Next: v1.c19.s9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.fergusson-1876.v1.c19.s9.1) - [Up: v1.c19.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.fergusson-1876.v1.c19.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.fergusson-1876.v1.c19.s8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.fergusson-1876.v1.c19.s8.8) · Pramāṇa