. The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by Wyld . d grotesquevagaries, agreeing neither with taste norpropriety. The Hindoo columns, for in-stance, are met with of all shapes and aUdimensions. Sometimes Ave find themtall, slender, and thickly placed j^ againthey are found ponderous and massive,with the lowest fourth of their heightsquare; the next kind
. The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by Wyld . d grotesquevagaries, agreeing neither with taste norpropriety. The Hindoo columns, for in-stance, are met with of all shapes and aUdimensions. Sometimes Ave find themtall, slender, and thickly placed j^ againthey are found ponderous and massive,with the lowest fourth of their heightsquare; the next kind is eight-sided, thethird sixteen-sided, and the upper partround. In many instances we meet withcolumns having a double capital with alow flat base; and others, again, formingperhaps a portion of the same temple,■with shafts of only one fourth of theirheight, the remaining three-fourths being all base and capital.^ As many as twelve distinct kinds of mouldings appear in thesetemples, some few of which bear a close resemblance to our own, butthey are mostly quite original in their character. The Hindoo style, sofar as it is known, is believed to bear an afiinity to that of the Egyptian j 1 Elphinstone, vol. i. p. 303, ^ Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal^ vol. part ii. p. ANCIENT COLUMN. CKARAOTER OF INDIAN ARCHITECTURE. 293 and in the hugeness, the massiveness of some of the works still extant, adegree of Iesemblance may perhaps be traced; but in most other respectsthe two would seem to be widely different. In many of the Hindoobuildings there is a great profusion of ornamental work about the panels,door-posts, and other parts, not inelegantly formed, and frequentlyblended with a considerable degree of taste.
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