Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s3.90

c4.s3.90

“Temples consist of the *garb'hagriha* (the womb of the house), the *antarála* (the anti-temple), and the *ard'ha mantapa* (the front portico). The diameter of the whole length of the building, including the walls, is to be divided into four and a-half or six parts; and the *garb'hagriha* to take up two, two and a half, or three; the *antarála*, one and a-half or two; and the *ard'ha mantapa*, one or one and a-half.⁶ “Temples on a large scale have three or four successive porticoes attached to them in the front, which are called *ard'ha-mantapa*, *maháman-tapa*, *st'hapana mantapa*, *urittya mantapa*, &c. *Ard'hamantapas* are sometimes made broader than the *garb'hagriha*, in which case the width of the former is either once and a-half or twice that of the latter. In the event of the three compartments being of the same breadth, the length of the whole should be two and a-half the breadth.”