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CHAPTER XVII.
ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE AND ART.
As has been rightly observed by Dr. Acharya,
architecture should not merely include public and religious
buildings or even civic and domestic architecture, but
interior decorations, furniture, etc., as well. Thus
architecture concerns itself not only with temples, arches,
forts, palaces, edifices, etc., but also with doors, windows,
balconies, floors, roofs, pillars, porches, as well as with
bedsteads, couches, tables, chairs, baskets, cages, nests,
mills, lamps and lamp-posts.' In fact, some of the texts
on architecture, including the great M膩nas膩ra, refer in
detail to all these particulars in architecture. We have
dealt with some of the aspects of architecture in earlier
chapters concerning "Court Life" and "Urban and
Rural Life," though
not under suitable paragraphs. That
information will be supplemented here with additional
details.
In the age of the Rigveda, we come across stone-
forts, walled cities, stone-houses and brick-edifices. The
excavations at Mohenjo-D膩ro have set at rest the
controversy between Fergusson and Rajendralal Mitra as
regards the indigenous origin of the Indian (Hindu)
architecture, and have once for all justified Dr. Mitra's
conclusion. In the Indus culture, we come across such
peculiarly Indian ideas and motifs as the open courtyard
in a house, elaborate drainage system, separate well and a
separate bath-room (ablution room) for every house
signifying the sanctity of water or water worship, use of
rectangular baked brick, burnt brick and mud mortar,
1 MR, S茅pt., 1934, pp. 281-284; Aug. 1935, pp. 136-137.