[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c11.s3.26 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s3.26 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s3.26 - **Language:** English ### [c11.s3.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s3.26) ¹ Fergusson, \*Hist. Ind. and E. Arch.\*, reprint of 1899, p. 103; new ed. by Burgess (1910), vol. i, p. 123. 'Instead of the \*ta-hsia\*, a "great mansion", here, the B text, used by Julien, has \*ta hsia\*, which is a Chinese name for the country called Bactria. But this is evidently a slip of the pen, and the proper reading is that of the other texts which means a “great mansion”' (Watters, \*On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India\* (1905), vol. ii, p. 218). This material correction and Mr. Watters's comments on the current 'identification' of the pilgrim's \*monasteries\* with the Amarāvatī \*stūpa\* have been overlooked in the revision of Fergusson's book. 'It is hard,' Mr. Watters observes, 'to understand how any one could propose to identify a large monastery among hills and streams, and having spacious chambers and great corridors, with a building which is only a remarkable tope situated on a plain.' The error concurred in by Julien, Fergusson, and Dr. Burgess will not readily disappear from books on Indian art and antiquities. - [Previous: c11.s3.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s3.25) - [Next: c11.s3.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s3.27) - [Up: c11.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s3.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s3.26) · Pramāṇa