Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s11.13

c4.s11.13

Various denominations are next given to *gópuras*, such as *srícara*, *ravicánta*, *sawmya*, *vijaya*, *visálaca*, &c., and their characteristic ornaments described with too much minutenesss to be here detailed; and to these succeeds a no less minute enumeration of the various parts which compose *gópuras* of the several heights before-mentioned, of which I shall subjoin the divisions and proportions of those only which consist of one, two, five, six, and twelve stories, the designs of which accompany this essay.