Add Or 5338(29-34)

Six studies of architecture and Buddhist shrines.

29 The five-storeyed Nyatapola temple standing in its square in Bhatgaon, with figures leaving the temple.

Pen-and-ink and pencil; 285 by 310 mm.

Inscribed in pencil in Nagari: ‘Bhadgaon Nyatapol.’

Note: This and the next seem some of the earliest examples of the distinctive ‘Company’style of Nepal, found in later examples in the Lawrence and Oldfield collections. Hodgson himself was instrumental in its creation. See also the Hodgson Collection of architectural drawings in the Royal Asiatic Society (R. Head, 1991).

30 The Matsyendranath temple in its square in Patan. A group of women spinning in the foreground.

Pen-and-ink and pencil; 265 by 245 mm.

Inscribed in pencil in Nagari: ‘Patan Machindranath sri deval.’

31 Four different sorts of Nepalese caityas, three of them labelled. The unlabelled one is a small stupa on top of a series of diminishing plinths.

Pen-and-ink; 215 by 315 mm.

Inscribed in pencil in ‘nagari’: ‘kostha layanakara caitya; kosthakara caitya valayanakara caitya; vedikopari layanakara caitya.’

32 Five different sorts of Nepalese caityas, four of them labelled. The unlabelled one seems a three-dimensional version of the Vedikopari Caitya of 31.

Pen-and-ink; 215 by330 mm.

Inscribed in pencil in ‘nagari’: ‘mandirakara caitya; kostha layanakara caitya; kosthagara layanakara caitya; kosthakara caitya va prasadakara caitya.’

33 The same Jaladharopari caitya from Svayambhunath as in Add.Or.5333 No. 11, i.e. an elongated stupa with four Buddhas on four cardinal sides on a superimposed plinth, with subsidiary shrines at the intermediate points.

Pen-and-ink over pencil; 245 by 190 mm.

34 The durbar hall of a Rana palace, with colonnades supporting a vaulted roof from which hang chandeliers, and full-length portraits and mirrors over console tables along the walls. An antechamber leading to a balcony at the end of the room is repeated on a smaller attached sheet on the reverse.

Pencil and water-colour on squared paper; 23 by 28 cm.