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Essay on the Arian Order of Architecture. 



[Sept. 



4. — The relative proportions between the heights and breadths of 

 the Kashmirian pillars are given in the following table : 





Lower Dr. 

 Inches. 



Height, 

 inches. 



Multiple 

 of Dr. 



Inter- 

 com. 



1| Inter- 

 com. 



Marttand Gate 

 do. Porch 

 do. Peristyle 



Avantipura Gate 

 do. Porch 

 do. Peristyle 



Pampur Pillar 



Bhaumajo Pilaster 



25.940 

 24.430 

 21.500 

 24.430 

 20.750 

 17.875 

 11.250 

 10.375 



209.250 

 155.500 

 113.250 

 233.235 

 171.375 

 122.750 

 71.500 

 66.250 



8tV 



5i 

 9tV 



si 



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61 

 6f 



138.00 



102.57 



81.56 



207.000 

 153.855 

 122.340 



114.25 

 85.62 



171.375 

 128.430 



44.250 



66.375 



The lowest multiple amongst these is that of the peristyle columns 

 of Marttand, which is almost the same as the 5^ diameters of the 

 Doric columns of the Parthenon. In the Marttand and Avantipura 

 examples the proportions increase rapidly, and not according to any 

 rule that I can discover, although no doubt some rule must have been 

 followed by the architects. I will hereafter show that the intercolum- 

 niation is always two thirds of the height, and I think it very probable 

 that the height was dependent upon the interval, which was itself 

 dependent upon the number either of pillars or of recesses, that the 

 architect had determined upon introducing on each side of the quad- 

 rangle. 



5. — In the above table I have given a column of heights, calculated 

 at 1^ intercolumniation each, which correspond almost exactly with the 

 measured heights. I have therefore but little doubt that the practical 

 rule followed by the Kashmirian architects was to make the height of 

 the pillar equal to one half more than the width of the interval. 



XXX.— Flutes. 

 1 .—All the peristyle columns of Marttand, Pampur and Avantipura 

 have 1 6 flutes : the larger columns of the porches have 20 flutes ; and 

 the still larger ones of the gateways have 24 flutes. But the number 

 of flutes did not always depend upon the size of the columns ; for there 

 is a fragment of a pillar standing near the tomb of Zein-ul-ab-ud-din's 

 mother, which has 24 flutes and is only 1 foot in diameter. This how- 



