Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s14: A Gópura Consisting of Five Stories
Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s14
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A Gópura Consisting of Five Stories
c4.s14.1
(See Plates XXXVIII. and XXXIX.)
c4.s14.2
“The height of the gate-pillars being divided into twenty-one parts, nine to be given to the pedestal, four to the base, and eight to the pillar, and the remainder of the pyramid, from the entablature up to the pinnacle, is in height equal to one and a-quarter part of the breadth of the ground-plan : and being divided into twenty-three parts, two to be given to the entablature of the first story; three and a-half to the pillar, one and three-quarters to the entablature of the second; three to the pillar, one and a-half to the entablature of the third; two and a-half to the pillar, one and a-quarter to the entablature of the fourth: two to the pillar, one to the entablature of the fifth; one to the cavetto, two and a-half to the dome, and one to the pinnacle.”