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Indian Architecture; Its Psychology, Structure, and History from the First Muhammadan Invasion to the Present Day - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...commenced by the Kmperor Husain Shah and completed by Nasrat Shah in the early part of the sixteenth century. It is one of the largest buildings now remaining at Gaur. The plan of it resembled that of the older Adinah mosque (fig. 7), but little now remains of the courtyard. The liwan, mainly built of brick, was faced in front with a nearly black hornblende stone, finely sculptured in low relief with designs adapted from the local Hindu terra-cotta work. Traces of gilding still remain. The facade, a corner of which is shown in PI. XLII, has eleven doorways, each 14 feet high and 8 feet wide, which have cusped Hindu arches and are framed with carved architraves adapted in design from the doorways of Hindu shrines. Eleven corresponding brick arches inside the liwan form an aisle covered by the same number of domes, and behind this aisle three others are formed by twenty stone pillars of Hindu design (PI. XLIII, B), connected with brick arches and dividing the remaining area of the liwan into thirty-three compartments also covered by domes. The upper part of the minarets at the four corners of the liwan have fallen. Their appearance when complete can be seen in Plate XLV. The curved cornices of the exterior and the vaulting of part of the side aisles with its beautiful stucco decoration shown in PI. XLIII, A, are reminiscences of the ancient bambu roofing still used in the cottages of BengaI. "To understand this," says Fergusson, "it may be as well to explain that the roofs of the huts in Bengal are formed of two rectangular frames of bambus, perfectly flat and rectangular when formed, but when lifted from the ground and fitted to the substructure they are bent so that the elasticity of the bambu, resisting the flexure, keeps all the fastenings ...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130846881
- ISBN 13 9781130846881
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages78
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