History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c33.s3.24

v2.c33.s3.24

The building stands on two terraces, the lower one about 10 ft. high, and 1391 ft. square; the upper one, 20 ft. in height, and 684 ft. square; from the centre rises the pagoda, the diameter of whose base is 395 ft. The small pagodas surrounding the base are 27 ft. high, and 40 ft. in circumference: they are in two tiers, the lower one of 75 and the upper 53, in all 128; while the great pagoda itself rises to the height of 324 ft. above its terrace, or 354 ft. above the country, thus reaching a height about equal to that of St. Paul's Cathedral: while the side of the upper terrace is only 83 ft. less than that of the great Pyramid.