1. ANCIENT INDIA
BY : MUHAMMAD NABIL HAKIM BIN KAMARUZAMAN
BM14200014
03/06/2015
2. ENVIRONMENT
• This county was separated by sea from Asia.
• The only passes were in the north-west, which link with the
iranian plate..
• The northern plains were watered by monsoons..
• The climate everywhere was tropical..
• In the plains there were few wild flowers..
3. ARCHITECTURE
• Secular architecture is of little consequence
• The extensive palace and garden of pataliputra built by
Asoka’s grandfather.
• The indigenous architecture was solely religios.
• They have on system of mathematical proportions both in
detail.
• This is apparent in the realization of the allegory at Borobudur.
4. LANDSCAPE
• Like the lotus, these monuments were self evoled out of
apparent waste.
• There is nevertheless, in the domestic sphere, evidence of
early hindu garden.
5. MAN’S RELATION TO THE
UNIVERSE
• Mandala is a basis of
religious building.
• Is a late of the 18th
or 19th century, but
the principle has
remained
unchanged.
Tibetan mandala
6. • Is an indian concept of
pratibimba,
• The imagined structure
of the cosmos and
supernatural things.
• The concept also
includes the making of
sacred mountains.
• Towards the end of the
first century BC four
gateways (torana)
were added at the four
cardinal point.
The Great Stupa At Sanchi
7. STUPA OF
BARABUDUR
• Probably built in the
mid-eighth century
• It is a pure mandala
created from a hill in
the centre of the
kedu plain
• Three terraces on
which are seated
seventy-two budda
in latticed stupas
Plan of stupa
Latticed stupa
9. DRAVIDIAN TEMPLES
• Ranged from rock
excavation to
seashore
• Near aurangabad in
the deccan
• The mid-eighteenth
century panorama by
thomas daniell
Ellura hills
10. • One of the
greatest
dravidian
monument
• Indicated as an
architectural
replica of the
sacred Mount
Kailasa
Kailasanatha temple
11. • Is on the sea coast
below madras
• One of a complex of
Dravidian monument
built by the rulers of
the Pallava dynasty in
the seventh century.
The shore temple at Mamallapuram
12. • Is carved on the
face of a granite
boulder over
eighty feet long
descent of the ganges from the himalayas
13. TEMPLE OF ANGKOR
• Jungle city of water
and mountain temple
on the cambodian
lake tonle sap
• By the fiteenth
century its
population may have
been a million