This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...elevation of one is given (Woodcut No. 203), but is not so rich as those of the centre, which have life been repeated by Langles and others. It was described by Mr. Blackadder in the 'Archseologia, ' vol. x. p. 457; and by Wilson, ' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ' vol. iii. p. 232. Volumes of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...elevation of one is given (Woodcut No. 203), but is not so rich as those of the centre, which have life been repeated by Langles and others. It was described by Mr. Blackadder in the 'Archseologia, ' vol. x. p. 457; and by Wilson, ' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ' vol. iii. p. 232. Volumes of native drawings exist in some collections containing representations of every pillar. A model in bronze of a porch exists at South Kensington Museum, and it has been abundantly photographed. sized figures attached to them, and arc even more elaborate in their details. In this instance it will be observed that the detached bracketing shaft at Chillambaram has become attached to the square central pier, and instead of the light elegance that characterised that example, has become a solid pier, five or six feet in depth--richer certainly, but far from being either so elegant or so appropriate as the earlier example. The view of the interior (Woodcut No. 204) gives some, but only a faint, idea of the effect. The sides are now closed with screens, and it is difficult to procure good photographs; but in effect, as in detail, it is identical with the corridors at Ramisseram, where the light is abundant. As the date of this hall is perfectly well known--it took twentytwo years to erect it, 1623 to 164o--it becomes a fixed point in our chronology of the style. We can, for instance, assert with perfect certainty that the porch to Parvati's shrine at Chillambaram (Woodcut No. 197) is certainly anterior to this, probably by a couple of centuries, and, with equal certainty that the corridors at Ramisseram are contemporary. From the history of the period we learn that the rajas of Ramnad were at times independent, at others at war with the Nayaks; but in...
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