[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834) › c3.12 # Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c3.12 Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c3.12 - **Language:** English ### [c3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c3.12) RÁM RÁZ was born at Tanjore, in the Carnatic, about the year 1790. He was small of stature, of a delicate frame, of a fair complexion for an Asiatic, and had a remarkably brilliant and piercing eye. On public occasions there was in his manner, though on the whole graceful and easy, a diffidence which might lead the cursory observer to undervalue his abilities; but by those to whom he was known in private, it was more justly attributed to innate modesty and humility. His name implies that he was of a superior caste; and he used to boast of being a collateral descendant of RÁM RÁJ, or RÁM RÁZ, the last of the kings of \*Vijayanagar\*; and as the name is often met with in the genealogy of those princes, it is not improbable that it may have thus descended to him. - [Previous: c3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c3.11) - [Next: c3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c3.13) - [Up: c3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c3) ## Linked texts (1) - [Vijayanagara](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.vijayanagara) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c3.12) · Pramāṇa