[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) › c4.12 # Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.12 Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.12 - **Language:** English ### [c4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.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. - [Previous: c4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.11) - [Next: c4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.13) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4) ## Cites (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.12) · Pramāṇa