. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. his reasoning;our notion being simply this, that as far as respects these monuments, if they are worthy tobo ranked as works of art, the means liy which they were produced have nothing to do withthe <juestion. It must, however, be admitted, that what the architect understands by or-donnance, or tlie comjiosition of a building, and the (jroper arrangement of its severalparts, ijoints which so much engaged the attention of the Greeks and Uomans, wi
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. his reasoning;our notion being simply this, that as far as respects these monuments, if they are worthy tobo ranked as works of art, the means liy which they were produced have nothing to do withthe <juestion. It must, however, be admitted, that what the architect understands by or-donnance, or tlie comjiosition of a building, and the (jroper arrangement of its severalparts, ijoints which so much engaged the attention of the Greeks and Uomans, will not befound in Indian architecture as far as our acquaintance with it extends. Conjecturesinfinite might be placed before the reader on the anti(]uity of this species of art, but theywould be valueless, no certain data, of which we are aware, existing to lead him in the rightroad ; and we must, therefore, be content with enumerating some of the principal worksin tliis style. The caves at Ellora consist of several apartments ; the jjlan of that calledthe Indra Subba (yzV/. 36.) is here given, to show the species of plan which these places.
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