Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.15

c4.15

The work entitled *Sacaládhicára*, an excellent but rather voluminous performance, is attributed to *Agastya*, a sage whose history occupies a conspicuous place in the *Puránas*. Some few sections only of this work are to be now met with; and the portion which has as yet come under my own observation, is exclusively on the subject of sculpture as connected with the formation of statues; but it is so diffuse, that if we suppose the whole work to be written in a similar style, it must considerably exceed the volume of *Mánasára*, the largest at present of my collection.