. Ceylon : an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Natural history -- Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka. 1. SECTION OF A BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN AVA. This mode of illuminating an interior is common in the rock-cut Basihcas of India, in which " one undivided volume of light, coming through a single opening over head, falls directly on the altar or other principal object, leaving the rest of the structure in comparative ob- ;^ The similarity of position and the identity of attitude between the two statues
. Ceylon : an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Natural history -- Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka. 1. SECTION OF A BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN AVA. This mode of illuminating an interior is common in the rock-cut Basihcas of India, in which " one undivided volume of light, coming through a single opening over head, falls directly on the altar or other principal object, leaving the rest of the structure in comparative ob- ;^ The similarity of position and the identity of attitude between the two statues in Ava and Ceylon, suggest the conjecture that the figure at Pollanarrua, hke that at Pagan-myo, may have been placed in the recess which it occupies, so as to admit of being lighted in a similar manner from an aperture concealed in the ^ Yule's Embassy to Am, p. 38. "^ Fergusson's Handbook of Architecture, vol. i. p. 27. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869. London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
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