The Architectural magazine . asare found in the (Grecian; but the spaces allowed between pillar and pillarin different Hindu buildings are found nearly to coincide with the Grecianmode of intercolumniations, though in too many instances they differ widelyfrom it, and the same may, perhaps, be said of the Egyptian colonnades. The Indian pedestals and bases are made more systematically, and affordby far a greater variety of proportions and ornaments, than the Grecian andRoman. In the European architecture, the forms and dimensions of thepedestals and houses are fixed by invariable rules, with re
The Architectural magazine . asare found in the (Grecian; but the spaces allowed between pillar and pillarin different Hindu buildings are found nearly to coincide with the Grecianmode of intercolumniations, though in too many instances they differ widelyfrom it, and the same may, perhaps, be said of the Egyptian colonnades. The Indian pedestals and bases are made more systematically, and affordby far a greater variety of proportions and ornaments, than the Grecian andRoman. In the European architecture, the forms and dimensions of thepedestals and houses are fixed by invariable rules, with respect to the ordersin which they are employed; but in the Indian, the choice is left to theoption of the artists. The capitals of the Grecian columns invariably markthe distinction of the several ortlers : those of the Indian are varied at plea-sure, though not without regard to the diameter and length of the shaft;and the forms of the plainest of them, though they have in reality no- the Architecture of the Hindus. 271 130. thing in common with the Grecian orders, arefound at a distant view to bear some resem-blance to the Doric and Ionic capitals; butthose of a more elaborate kind are sometimesso overloaded with a sort of filigree orna-ments, as to destroy the effect of the beautifulproportions of the whole. The Egyptiancapitals, on the other hand, are formed intoelegant vase shapes, decorated with the stalks,leaves, and blossoms of the lotus, and occa-sionally with palm leaves, which latter orna-ments are supposed to have given the first ideaof the Corinthian capitals. And in somespecimens, the Egyptian capital is composedof the representation of the head of the god-tless Isis. The entablature of the Indian orderadmits of little variety, as well in its com-position as in its relative proportions ; whereasthe same member, in the Grecian and Romanarchitecture, is varied for each order both inform and magnitude. The massiveness of theIndian entablature offers a striking contras
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