Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.5

c4.5

In a series of memorial verses preserved among the artists, are recorded the names of the authors or titles of the above-mentioned sixty-four treatises. Of these, thirty-two are called *Muc'hya*, or principal, and thirty-two *Upa* or subordinate. I have not been able to ascertain who was the author of these verses, but they contain little more than the titles of the works in question, and which are mostly patronymics of the deities who were believed to have revealed the particular art or arts on which each work treated, or of the authors of the treatises themselves, the renowned *Rishis* or holy men, who are said to have flourished in the earlier ages.