[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) › c4.14 # Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.14 Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.14 - **Language:** English ### [c4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.14) The fourth treatise, called \*Vayghánasa\*, is the work of a sage so named, and who was the founder of a sect of \*Vaishnava\* priests. It is written in a sort of metrical prose, and is rather ritual than architectural; and as the author in the latter part of the work frequently cites the authority of \*Cásyapa\*, and as the work itself is included among the subordinate treatises enumerated in the list, it appears to be comparatively a modern performance. It opens with an encomium on the land of \*Bhárata\*,cont as being peculiarly sacred, and adapted for the performance of holy rites and sacrifices; and thence proceeds to describe the various sacrifices ordained in the \*Véda\*, to be performed when the purpose is to obtain special boons or favours, either temporal or spiritual, such as progeny, riches, wisdom, absolution from sin, purification, &c. It next treats of the mystical rites practised in honour of \*Vástu\*, preparatory to the building of sacred edifices, or of altars for sacrifices; of villages, towns, and cities, the fruits to be derived from building and peopling them with \*Bráhmans\*; the construction of temples dedicated to \*Vishnu\*, with rules for carving the images of that deity and his attendants, on whose attributes the author occasionally dwells with that devotion and zeal which characterize all his followers. - [Previous: c4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.13) - [Next: c4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.15) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4) ## Cites (3) - [Veda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) — Sanskrit - [Kāśyapadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.kasyapadharmasutra) — Kaśyapa, Sanskrit - [Vaikhānasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.vaikhanasa-school.vaikhanasa-anon) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.14) · Pramāṇa