Indian Antiquary Vol 34

SR No.: 032526
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 548
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(SEPTEMBER, 1905.
sanctioned, and the Colonial Minister nominated I to numerous & series of details has been to it. Such men as Professors H. Kern and secured is simple and perfect: the outline plan J. G. Speyer, Mesers. J. W. IJzerman, G. P. gives the position of every sculpture or moulding, Rouffaer, &c., with Dr. J. L. A. Brandes as and a small board with ledges, on which executive archeologist, assisted by H L. Ley die separate cards with figures can be readily placed, Melville as architectural surveyor, and J. Knebel. provides the photographer with the means of This first volume of the Survey is proof of the placing the serial number just below or above wisdom of this arrangement as well as of the the sculpture to be represented. With this he high qualifications of the executive staff: it is has also placed a metre-rod on every piece, Bu as a model for all such work.
not to interfere with the pattern, and as the The volume is devoted to the complete survey
surfaces photographed extend on an average to of one ruined temple, dating from about the
from 4 or 5 feet euch in length, the representations middle of the 13th century, whose extreme
ure equivalent to drawings to scale, but far excel dimensions do not exceed 80 feet hy 46. The
them in accuracy of delineation, whilst there is illustrations follow & well-devised scheme : first
also a great saving in expense. a map - of the section of country to 15 8 miles The making of a complete survey of an ancient to an inch ( 1/1,000,000); second, of Malang and monument in this way is most autisfactory its environs to five times the first scale; and then wherever possible. From these drawings and of Dean Toempang in which Tjandi Djago is photographs it would be possible to ounstruct a situated, to a scale of 1/7500, or 203 yards to an perfect model of Tjandi Djago; and, thongh this inch.
is not the object, the full illustration will be of The lithographed architectural drawings, con
immense value in the further work of the survey sisting of plans, elevations, sections, contours of
both for mythological and historicul comparison
with other temples. Often it mouldings, stairs, &c., are all laid down to com
is found that, inodious scales on a decimal basis: - thus, the
however careful and instructive a partial survey ground plan and longitudinal section is to
may be, the student is left at a loss for wart of 1/100, eleven drawings of elevations and sections
some detail that would have been included had of details, shrine, &e, to 1/40; eight drawings of
of the survey been as complete as this is; and in profiles of mouldings, image pedestal, &c., to
some instances a later additional photograph may 1/20, and two to 1/10. This arrangement enables
npeet some previous conclusion. the reader at once to measure all dimensions
This survey has followed up those previously as he may choose, in feet or in metres; and the referred to, and upon the same thorough system: height and projection of every monlding is nothing is omitted, the orientation is always marked on the profiles in centimetres, as well as prominently indicated, and the letterpress, by the principal dimensions on all the drawings. This
Dr. J. L. A. Brandes,' is scholarly and fully is an excellent feature, as it supplies the dimen- informed. sions at a glance, and makes it unnecessary to The Commission in Netherlands India has cumber the text with many of them. There further added ten quarterly reports for 1901measurements being inserted in the originals, 1903, issued by the Batavian Society of Arts and made in the field, also precludes the mistakes Sciences, and containing supplementary papers, occasionally arising from affixing wrong scales mostly by Heer J. Knebel, on separate monumente, when fairing out the drawings in office. The sculptures in museums, &c., all excellently lithographs fill twenty-five plates-eight of them illustrated and of much interest to the Indian on folding sheets. A general plan on a scale of antiquary; for the Java statues are those of 1/60 supplies a complete index to the various readily recognised members of the Hindd and compartments and sculptures referred to in the Buddhist pantheons. The only drawback to the text, and shows by other numerals the exact English student is that the text is in Dutch, position of every one of upwards of two hundred which is but little used among us : & French and sixteen photographs – out of the 253 that version of it, as in the work on Bôro-Badar, follow on a hundred and two plates. These would have been a boon to many. A part represent every foot of sculpture upon the base- from this, as the results of a thoroughly scientific ments and walls, with every statue, the latter archeological survey, this volume is of the in two or more positions and on a large scale. highest character and value. The device by which ready and accurate reference
J. B. Singe writing the above, we regret to learn that the accomplished scholar and arohtologist - Dr. J. L. A. Brandes - who was directing the recution of this survey, has died at Woltreden in Java, 26th June last, at the early age of 48 years,