Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.16

c4.16

As I have but a few detached pieces of the other works mentioned above, they do not appear to call for any distinct notice. Some of these pieces are descriptive of the construction of temples, some of the towers over gateways, some contain directions for laying the foundation of a building, some treat of the auspicious and inauspicious seasons for the commencement of an edifice, and others of the manufacture of images and so forth. However, as the rules contained in these fragments differ very little in substance from those laid down in the *Mánasára* and other treatises on the same subject, I shall seldom have occasion to refer to them in the course of this essay.