Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.27

c4.27

† Since writing the above, a respectable friend of mine had the kindness to procure me, from Travancore, a copy of a work entitled *Mánushyálaya Chandrica*, which, as its name implies, treats of that branch of the art which applies to private houses, but of the description built in that kingdom.
* A treatise on civil architecture referred to in the preceding note. \* Chadira (*memosa* of Linn ), cadumba (*naseclea*), nimba (*margosa*), champaca (*michelea*), punnága (*mesua* of Linn.), amlaca (*emblica* of Linn.), pátala (*bignonia*), saptapharna (*echites* of Linn.), and some others, belong to this species of trees.