. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . ENTRANCE TO A PAGODA. nades. Inside the courts are lustral pools, colonnades,large halls, called Tschultris, which are used to lodgepilgrims in. Small side-temples appear with cupolassurmounting the accessory buildings. Behind the courtis often a second and a third, in which, finally, the chieftemple stands. Although the architecture of all these 94 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE constructive designs has no pretensions to artistic orstylic importance, still the drawings, Figures 10 and 11,illustrate, in forming an opinion of these build
. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . ENTRANCE TO A PAGODA. nades. Inside the courts are lustral pools, colonnades,large halls, called Tschultris, which are used to lodgepilgrims in. Small side-temples appear with cupolassurmounting the accessory buildings. Behind the courtis often a second and a third, in which, finally, the chieftemple stands. Although the architecture of all these 94 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE constructive designs has no pretensions to artistic orstylic importance, still the drawings, Figures 10 and 11,illustrate, in forming an opinion of these buildings, howa wonderfully fantastic effect is produced by a tastelessexcess in peculiar ornamentation and architectural Fig. 10. TEMPLE OF VIMALA SALE (JAINA ARCHITECTURE12th CENTURY). 17. The most important of these pagodas are thoseoE Madura, Tanjore, and Chillimbaram. The island ofKamisseram furnishes also a large number of thesesacred buildings, which are, in their way, most celebrated is the Pagoda of Juggernaut, whichwas only completed towards the end of the twelfth cen-tury after Christ. This was built after the model ofthe older temples which are now in ruins, and to be EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE 95 found in numbers in the neighborhood of the existingbuilding. Monstrous swarthy idols, with eyes of spark-ling diamonds, are ranged in the interior. The chief
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