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The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society

1916

In the vast majority of cases the relationship between the divisions of the cella wall and those of the sikkara or tower is faithfully maintained This results in the interesting fact that the number of such horzontal storeys is regularly an uneven one. [...] The temple is a very modern one of course and the ;'ethetic variation in the size of these miniatures makes the couting of the storeys in the photograph less easy than we could desire perhaps although there actually are five storeys in realty ; but in the case of the next example (Plate 7) the Mahadeva asthan at Saurath in Darbhanga and in the other examples we shall see the counti [...] The sixth storey however which crosses the entire width of the pinnacle serves as a transitional meber and brings us to the top of what is as clearly a descending series of single miniatures centrally placed and so constructed that the topmost one is the largest and the others each smaller and smaller so that here the progress of the eye is inevitably downwards. [...] It is said that if there is a tree in front of the house it gives rise to many undesirable results; if in front of the house there happens to be a puddle there is sorrow in the household; the presence of a well in close proximity to the house brings upon the inmates the disease of epilersy and the pr(sence of a drain hails to suffering ( -Igni-Porcine Adhyjya 101). [...] The thickness of the wall was proportionate to the width of the house because the wider the house the longer would be the beam ; and hence the wall should be correspondingly thick in order to be able to bear the burden of the beams.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
168
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120007
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii unknown view
I—Temple Types in Tirhut
119-xxxv D. B. Spooner view
II—House-building and Sanitation in Ancient India
135-152 Mahamahopadhyaya Jha view
III—The History of Orissa in the Seventeenth Century reconstructed from Persian sources
153-166 Jadunath Sarkar view
IV—Tasapaikera Charter of Ranaka Rana Bhanja Deva
167-178 B. C Majumdar view
V—Kalidasa III—Chronology of his Works and his Learning
179-190 Hara Shastri view
VI—Santal Legends
191-200 A Campbell view
VII—The Divine Myths of the Mundas
201-214 Sarat Roy view
VIII—Some North Indian Charms for the Cure of Ailments
215-230 Sarat Mitra view
Reviews and Notices of Books 1—Samasamayik Bharat Parts I II III &VIII
231-232 Jogendra Samaddar view
Notes of the Quarter I—Minutes of an Ordinary Meeting of the Society
233-234 unknown view
II—Minutes of a Meeting of the Council of the Bihar and Orissa Research
235-236 unknown view
III—Minutes of a Meeting of the Council
237-238 unknown view

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