The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . six centuries of stone archi-tecture are Buddhist. Among the most remarkable ofthe works of Indian architecture are the rock-cut templt-sand balls, such as those at Ellora, where series of courts,pillared chambers, porches, cells, and cloisters extendfor miles, all excavated from the solid rock, and coveredwith elaborate carving. Lofty towers and pagodas, andthe conical pseudo-domes of the Jains, built in horizon-tal courses, are also characteristic. A system of
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . six centuries of stone archi-tecture are Buddhist. Among the most remarkable ofthe works of Indian architecture are the rock-cut templt-sand balls, such as those at Ellora, where series of courts,pillared chambers, porches, cells, and cloisters extendfor miles, all excavated from the solid rock, and coveredwith elaborate carving. Lofty towers and pagodas, andthe conical pseudo-domes of the Jains, built in horizon-tal courses, are also characteristic. A system of horizon-tal arcliitraves is consistently applied; and many of thepiers and columns in the later works display capitals re-sembling closely those of some medieval styles of no regular order appears, like those of the classicalstyles; nor can the development of an arched style be con- Indian secutively traced, in spite of many patent resemblancesto European ai-t. as in the palace of Madura. The carveddecoration is usually exceedingly rii^h and varitd, intro-ducing tifi ly liuiii;in ;uid uiiinKiI forms, and often cov-. ering piers, arches, and fiat surfaces, both without andwithin. Sculpture was at its best in the fourth and fifthcenturies a. d., but shows the Oriental characteristic ofdecline almost from the beginning. Animals and botani-cal details are well done; the human figure, though life-like, is conventionalized and not beautiful. Indian archi-tecture has been very thoroughly and intelligently treatedby native writers.—Indian halm, the purple trillium orItirthroot, a native of North America. See Trillium.—Indian bark, bay, bean, bee-king. See the nouns.— In-dian berry, Anamirta jxiniculnta, a climbing shrub ofthe natiUTd order Menisperniareo, a native of India andthe ilalay islands. It bears panicles of flowers 1 to feetlong. The fruit, when dried, is known as Cocculus Cocculus.—Indian blue. Same aa indigo.—In6iajlbread. Seedef. 3.—In
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