Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.12

c4.12

¹ \* *Máya* is also stated in the *Mahábhárata* to have erected a splendid palace for the residence of the five sons of *Pándú*, a poetical description of which occupies a whole book of that celebrated work. He is supposed to be one and the same person with him who erected the altar for *Dasáratha*, and the seeming inconsistency of his being contemporary with *Ráma* and *Chríshna*, in two such remote periods as the Creta and Dwapara Yugas, mythological writers reconcile by assigning a supernatural term to the life of the personage in question.
* India.