[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) › c8.153 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.153 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.153 - **Language:** English ### [c8.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.153) Broadly, the monastery consisted of a raised quadrangle, 288 feet north and south by 268 feet east and west, walled, with entrances at the cardinal points, enclosing a \*dāgaba\* \[\*stūpa\*\] and three \*vihārēs\* \[temples\], and having an open hall attached to the north. Outside this \*temenos\* was first a walk, then twelve annexes, evenly grouped, surrounded by a moat, with the chief \*pansala\* \[monks’ residences\], a bathing-house, and a few other buildings on the south and west; the whole covering an area of 12½ acres, bounded by a quadrangular wall of stone, 200 yards by 300 yards, traces of which may still be seen. From the lodge (\*mura-gē\*) a broad street led straight to the inner quadrangle.'¹ - [Previous: c8.152](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.152) - [Next: c8.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.154) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.153) · Pramāṇa