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Essay on the Avian Order of Architecture. 



[Sept. 



3. — The following table exhibits the diminutions of the Kashmirian 

 pillars, along with the heights of the shafts, and the total heights of the 

 columns. Beside these I have placed the scale of diminutions calcu- 

 lated at one quarter of an inch per cubit of height of shaft. The 

 remarkably close agreement of the numbers in this last column with 

 the actual measured diminution, is, I think, a sufficient proof of the 

 correctness of my deduced rule. The practical rule amongst the Kash- 

 mirian architects was most probably to lessen the thickness of the shaft 

 by one third part of a finger, or angula, (=* inch) for every cubit, or 

 hast a, of its height. 







Total 



Height 



Actual 



Calculated 







height. 



of shaft. 



dimn. 



diminution. 



Srinagar 



Pillar 



4.1* 



1.5* 



0.250 



0.239 



Pampur 



Ditto 



5.11| 



3.6 



0.625 



0.586 



Avantipura 



Peristyle. . . 



10.2| 



6.5J 



1.000 



1.072 



Marttand 



Ditto 



9.5} 



5.7 



0.900 



0.930 



Ditto 



Porch 



12.11| 



8.7| 



1.520 



1.441 



XXXV. — Inter columniations. 

 1 . — The distance between the pillars of the Kashmirian colonnades, 

 measured at the base of the shaft, is never less than 4 diameters. After 

 a careful examination of all the examples, I have been unable to discover 

 any rule, founded upon multiples of the diameter, that is suitable to 

 the Kashmirian order. But I have found what appears to me to have 

 been the practical rule used for determining the distance between the 

 columns, which is, to make the interval equal to two-thirds of the total 

 height of the pillar. The following table shows the results of this rule, 

 side by side with the measured intercolumniations : — 







Height. 



f Height. 



Measured 







Inches 





Intercols. 



Marttand 



Gate 



209.25 



139.50 



138.00 



Ditto 



Porch 



155.50 



103.66 



102.57 



Ditto 



Peristyle 



113.25 



75.50 



81.56 



Avantipura 



Porch 



174.17 



116.11 



114.25 



Ditto 



Peristyle 



122.75 



81.83 



85.62 



Bhaumajo 



Pilaster 



66.25 



44.07 



44.25 



