 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1876 - 792 pages
...new enclosure, they might certainly have spared enough to complete this solitary shrine. RAMISSERAM. If it were proposed to select one temple which should...design, the choice would almost inevitably fall on that at Ramisseram, in the island of Paumben (Woodcut No. 200). In no other temple has the same amount of... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1876 - 790 pages
...new enclosure, they might certainly have spared enough to complete this solitary shrine. RA.MISSERAM. If it were proposed to select one temple which should...design, the choice would almost inevitably fall on that at Ramisseram, in the island of Paumben (Woodcut No. 200). In no other temple has the same amount of... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1876 - 814 pages
...enclosure, they might certainly have spared enough to complete this solitary shrine. RAMISSERAM. If it wore proposed to select one temple which should exhibit...design, the choice would almost inevitably fall on that at Ramisseram, in the island of Paumben (Woodcut No. 200). In no other temple has the same amount of... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1876 - 792 pages
...new enclosure, they might certainly have spared enough to complete this solitary shrine. RAMISSERAM. If it were proposed to select one temple which should exhibit all the beauties of tho Dravidian style in their greatest perfection, and at the same time exemplify all its characteristic... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Edward Backhouse Eastwick - Chennai (India) - 1879 - 536 pages
...stone, a unique ease in Pagoda architecture. Mr. Fergusson says (" History of Architecture," p. 355), " If it were proposed to select one temple which should exhibit all the beauties of the Dravidean style in their greatest perfection, and at the same time exemplify all its characteristic... | |
 | Madras (India : Presidency) - 1882 - 408 pages
...RAmaliAgatcami in his Indian and Eastern Architecture (pp. 355-358) , and gives illustrations. He writes : " If it were proposed to select one temple which should...design, the choice would almost inevitably fall on that at Ramisseram In no other temple has the same amount of patient industry been exhibited as here, and... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1886 - 534 pages
...Fergusson, in his History of Eastern Architecture (ed. 1876), thus describes this celebrated shrine: — 'If it were proposed to select one temple which should...beauties of the Dravidian style in their greatest pertection, and at the same time exemplify all its characteristic defects of design, the choice would... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1886 - 536 pages
...Fergusson, in his History of Eastern Architecture (ed. 1876), thus describes this celebrated shrine: — -'If it were proposed to select one temple which should...of design, the choice would almost inevitably fall upon that at Rameswaram. In no other temple has the same amount of patient industry been exhibited... | |
 | William Sproston Caine - Description and Travel - 1891 - 688 pages
...cross-country journey of 105 miles through Ramnad in bullock- carts or palkis. Fergusson is of opinion that if it were proposed to select one temple which should...characteristic defects of design, the choice would inevitably fall on that of Rameshwaram. He gives some account of it, with plans and illustrations,... | |
 | John Murray - Burma - 1898 - 670 pages
...and ceilings), and the wonderful pillared halls which surround the inner shrine. Fergusson says, " If it were proposed to select one temple which should...of design, the choice would almost inevitably fall upon that at Rameswaram. In no other temple has the same amount of patient industry been exhibited... | |
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If it were proposed to select one temple which should exhibit all the beauties of the Dravidian style in their greatest perfection, and at the same time exemplify all its characteristic defects of design, the choice would almost inevitably fall on that... 
