. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. to therock-cut monuments of India,than to the special class ofIndian architecture comi)risedunder the terra pagi^da. The term ])agoda is, in aloose way, also applied to thoseChinese buildings of a tower-form, which consist of severalstories, each story containinga single room, and being sur-rounded by a gallery coveredwith a protruding roof. Thesebuildings, however, differ materially from theHindu pagodas, not only so far as their style andexterior appearance are concerned, but inasmuch. Porcelain Tower ofNanking. a
. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. to therock-cut monuments of India,than to the special class ofIndian architecture comi)risedunder the terra pagi^da. The term ])agoda is, in aloose way, also applied to thoseChinese buildings of a tower-form, which consist of severalstories, each story containinga single room, and being sur-rounded by a gallery coveredwith a protruding roof. Thesebuildings, however, differ materially from theHindu pagodas, not only so far as their style andexterior appearance are concerned, but inasmuch. Porcelain Tower ofNanking. as they are buildintrs intended for other thanreligious purposes. The Chinese call them Ta. andthey are generally erected in commemoration of aceleljrated personage, or some remarkable event;and for this reason, too, on some elevated spot,where they may be conspicuous, and add to thecharms of the scenery. Some of these buildingshave a height of 160 feet; the finest known speci-men of them is the famous Porcelain Tower ofNanking (q. v.). The application of the namepagoda to a Chinese temple should be dis-countenanced, for, as a nUe, a Chinese temple isan insignificant building, seldom more than twostories high, and built of wood; the exceptions arerare, and where they occur, as at Peking, suchtemples, however magnificent, have no architecturalattinity with a Hindu pagoda. PAGURUS AND PAGURID^. See HeriutCrab. PAHLANPUR, a town of India, capital ofthe state of the same name, 260 miles east-south-east of Hyderabad. It is a walled town, is theseat of extensive t
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