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... building of a city that had been laid waste by foreign enemies , and subsequently abandoned altogether . " There are ... buildings , whereof some are yet standing , although the trees of the forest have grown over and covered them ...
... building of a city that had been laid waste by foreign enemies , and subsequently abandoned altogether . " There are ... buildings , whereof some are yet standing , although the trees of the forest have grown over and covered them ...
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... buildings there only remain the signs of their foundations , and in others even the sites cannot be distinguished . What need is there of further description ? This city , which is now so ugly and displeasing to the eye , we purpose to ...
... buildings there only remain the signs of their foundations , and in others even the sites cannot be distinguished . What need is there of further description ? This city , which is now so ugly and displeasing to the eye , we purpose to ...
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... buildings undertaken by the Sinhalese kings , it was otherwise , as the king in these cases always desired to remunerate ... building of a great monastery called the Brazen Palace , that " The generous Rāja , at the very beginning of the ...
... buildings undertaken by the Sinhalese kings , it was otherwise , as the king in these cases always desired to remunerate ... building of a great monastery called the Brazen Palace , that " The generous Rāja , at the very beginning of the ...
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... building of Buddhist temples that the State craftsmen were chiefly occupied when the . requirements of the court and the armoury had been met . And on all these occasions the craftsmen were liberally and specially rewarded . I wish I ...
... building of Buddhist temples that the State craftsmen were chiefly occupied when the . requirements of the court and the armoury had been met . And on all these occasions the craftsmen were liberally and specially rewarded . I wish I ...
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... building , restoring or supplying the requirements of temples , that the art was really as distinctively religious as the Gothic art of the middle ages , and in the same way too , it was an art for , and understood by , the whole people ...
... building , restoring or supplying the requirements of temples , that the art was really as distinctively religious as the Gothic art of the middle ages , and in the same way too , it was an art for , and understood by , the whole people ...
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Ahmedabad APPENDIX art and craft artisans artists Arts of India beautiful BHIKKU blacksmith Brahmans Buddha Buddhist builders building C. R. ASHBEE carpenter caste century ceremony Ceylon cloth colour competition Coomaraswamy CRAFT GUILDS craftsmanship CRAFTSMEN OF SIAM cultivated culture decorated departmental district duties E. B. Havell East English festival FEUDAL CRAFTSMEN FOREWORD give gold goldsmith handicrafts HEARN ON CRAFT Heraclitus HEREDITARY CRAFTSMAN Hindu Indian Art Indian craftsman Indian village Industrial Arts industrial machinery inscription Japan Jātaka Kabir Panth kammalar Kandy Kandyan king king's kiriya of land Kottal-badde labour LAFCADIO HEARN Mahavamsa MARCO POLO master mediæval medieval merchant Mitrānanda organisation ornament painter painting palace payment person piece plaster present pupil Rāja Rāmāyana regulation religious royal armoury Sanskrit servants Sinhalese Sir George Birdwood Sir George Watt skill Smith society spiritual tenant things trade guilds traditional vihāra village community VILLAGE POTTER Visvakarma wages Western
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Page 71 - Waste not your time in idleness and indolence, and occupy yourselves with that which will profit yourselves and others beside yourself.
Page 24 - There are many that hate painting ; but such men I dislike. It appears to me as if a painter had quite peculiar means of recognizing God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one after the other, must come to feel that he cannot bestow individuality upon his work, and is thus forced to think of God, the Giver of life, and will thus increase in knowledge.
Page 104 - India, and who, for all the marvellous tissues and embroidery they have wrought, have polluted no rivers, deformed no pleasing prospects, nor poisoned any air ; whose skill and individuality the training of countless generations has developed to the highest...
Page 99 - ... remain in full municipal vigour all over the peninsula. Scythian, Greek, Saracen, Afghan, Mongol, and Maratha have come down from its mountains, and Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, and Dane up out of its seas, and set up their successive dominations in the land ; but the religious trades-union villages have remained as little affected by their coming and going as a rock by the rising and falling of the tide...
Page 101 - Europe to understand what things may be done by machinery, and what must be done by hand-work, if art is of the slightest consideration in the matter. But if, owing to the operation of certain economic causes, machinery were to be gradually introduced into India for the manufacture of its great traditional handicrafts, there would ensue an industrial revolution which, if not directed...
Page 102 - ... gold and silver earrings, and round tires like the moon, bracelets and tablets and nose-rings, and tinkling ornaments for the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of the great temple, which rises over the grove of mangoes and palms at the end of the street above the lotus-covered village tank.
Page 58 - ... is to be beaten with the great Maul, he holds it, still sitting upon his Stool, and they must hammer it themselves, he only with his little Hammer knocking it sometimes into fashion. And if it be any thing to be filed, he makes them go themselves and grind it upon a Stone, that his labour of fileing may be the less ; and when they have done it as well as they can, he goes over it again with his file and finisheth it. That which makes these Smiths thus stately is, because the Towns People are...
Page 17 - Tanjore an agreement by which the entire guild binds itself to a contract executed on its behalf by an individual member of the guild for the supply of oil in perpetuity for a sacred lamp. The inscription runs as follows : ' We, all the following shepherds of this village . . . agree to become security for Eran Sattan, a shepherd of this village, (who) had received 90 ewes of this temple in order to supply ghl for burning one perpetual lamp.