[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) › c4.41 # Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.41 Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.41 - **Language:** English ### [c4.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.41) “The best sort of ground should abound with milky\\* trees, full of fruits and flowers; its boundary should be of a quadrangular form, level and smooth, with a sloping declivity towards the east, producing a hard sound, with a stream running from left to right, of an agreeable odour, fertile, of an uniform colour, containing a great quantity of soil, producing water when dug to the height of a man’s arm raised above his head, and situated in a climate of moderate temperature. The ground possessed of qualities directly opposite to those mentioned above is the worst, and that which has a mixed nature is the middling.” - [Previous: c4.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.40) - [Next: c4.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.42) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.41) · Pramāṇa