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... sheets , he ordered the ceremony of placing pots full of water , and of other rites ; and on the completion of the Nētra Pinkama , his hands having been washed [ ceremonial purification IN CEYLON . after painting the eyes of the image 34.
... sheets , he ordered the ceremony of placing pots full of water , and of other rites ; and on the completion of the Nētra Pinkama , his hands having been washed [ ceremonial purification IN CEYLON . after painting the eyes of the image 34.
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... Vihāra ( Buddhist temple ) held 4 acres of land . His services ( com- mutable for Rs . 10.35 ) were to give at New Year one piece of pottery ; for the ceremony of sprinkling ROYAL BUILDERS milk , two pots ; one yoke load 39.
... Vihāra ( Buddhist temple ) held 4 acres of land . His services ( com- mutable for Rs . 10.35 ) were to give at New Year one piece of pottery ; for the ceremony of sprinkling ROYAL BUILDERS milk , two pots ; one yoke load 39.
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... thereof a representation of hell and heaven . . and having furnished the temple with curtains , ceiling cloths , umbrellas , flags , drums , oboes , etc. • His Majesty • ROYAL BUILDERS . ordered the ceremony of painting the eyes 41.
... thereof a representation of hell and heaven . . and having furnished the temple with curtains , ceiling cloths , umbrellas , flags , drums , oboes , etc. • His Majesty • ROYAL BUILDERS . ordered the ceremony of painting the eyes 41.
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Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. ROYAL BUILDERS . ordered the ceremony of painting the eyes to be performed , and His Majesty also furnished all the necessaries thereto , and having granted much riches in clothes , money and other things to ...
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. ROYAL BUILDERS . ordered the ceremony of painting the eyes to be performed , and His Majesty also furnished all the necessaries thereto , and having granted much riches in clothes , money and other things to ...
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... ceremony of painting the eyes of an image , as performed in Ceylon as illustrating a gorgeous and beautiful episode in the craftsman's life , and showing him in the performance of priestly functions . I omit many details , more fully ...
... ceremony of painting the eyes of an image , as performed in Ceylon as illustrating a gorgeous and beautiful episode in the craftsman's life , and showing him in the performance of priestly functions . I omit many details , more fully ...
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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 GUILDS IN JAPAN 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 medieval merchant Mitrānanda organisation ornament painters painting palace papier-maché payment person piece plaster 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 Visvakarma wages Western
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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 - India has undergone more religious and political revolutions than any other country in the world ; but the village communities 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...
Page 117 - Each of these houses contains at least 12 men, whilst some contain 20 and some 40, — not that these are all masters, but inclusive of the journeymen who work under the masters. And yet all these craftsmen had full occupation, for many other cities of the kingdom are supplied from this city with what they require. The document aforesaid also stated that the number and wealth of the merchants, and the amount of goods that passed through their hands, was so enormous that no man could form a just estimate...
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.
Page 27 - go and fetch the golden image," and being charged a second time he brought it. The prince ordered the image that the smith had wrought to be thrown into the golden chamber, and that which he himself had made he had adorned and placed in a car and sent it to his mother, saying, " When I find a woman like this, I will take her to wife.
Page 49 - And he told a story of olden days. Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta was king of Benares, there was a village of carpenters not far from the city, in which five hundred carpenters lived. They would go up the river in a vessel, and enter the forest, where they would shape beams and planks for housebuilding, and put together the framework of one-storey or two-storey houses, numbering all the pieces from the mainpost onwards; these then they brought down to the river bank, and put them all aboard;...
Page 104 - ... any air ; whose skill and individuality the training of countless generations has developed to the highest perfection ; these hereditary handicraftsmen are being everywhere gathered from their democratic village communities in hundreds and thousands into the colossal mills of Bombay, to drudge in gangs, for tempting wages, at manufacturing piece goods, in competition with Manchester, in the production of which they are no more intellectually and morally concerned than the grinder of a barrel...
Page 100 - ... 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.