Indian Architectural Terms

These two volumes, the latter especially, are monumental works, and will be indispensable to every student of Indian architecture and realia. Only those who work along these lines will realise the great labour involved in the preparation of such books, especially when they are almost the first of their kind; the serious study of the Indian silpa-sastras has been too long delayed, and a warm welcome may be extended to the Professor's undertaking. The author, nevertheless, has neglected a good deal of work that has been done in this field; surprising omissions in the references, for example, are Rao, Tdlamdna, Jouveau-Dubreuil, Archeologie du Sud de l'Inde, and texts such as the Visnudharmottara and gilparatna. Moreover the author is too little, if at all, acquainted with the actual buildings; otherwise, indeed, he could not remarked that the buildings and sculptures of the time when the text of the Manasara was composed have all been destroyed, overlooking the fact that sculptures and buildings of this and earlier periods survive in thousands, and that a very great deal of exact information about the early architecture can be gathered from the gufga, Kus-dna, and Xndhra reliefs. I myself in preparation a work based on this early material, which can and necessarily will be very fully illustrated. Jouveau-Dubreuil had the immense advantage of a thorough knowledge of the actual architecture, and of personal contact with living sthapatis able to explain the meaning of technical terms; without these qualifications Professor Acharya has attempted an almost impossible task, for here book-learning, however profound, is insufficient. The following notes, however, are meant to be a further contribution to the subject and an acknowledgment of the value of what the Professor has already accomplished, rather than further criticism. 250

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