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Item Sri Lalitha Navaratnam Manaiadi Sastiram, A Translation into EnglishMacDougall, Bonnie G.; Amarasingam, Christobelle (2008-05-02T17:01:47Z)This is a translation into English by Bonnie G. MacDougall and Christobelle Amarasingam of the Sri Lalitha Navaratnam Manaiadi Sastiram, a work on housebuilding in prose from the Tamil speaking area of South India. The original work was compiled in 1914 and is said to be based on the teachings of the great sage Maya. It belongs to a genre of works on housebuilding circulated in the modern languages of South Asia. Published in 1914.Item The Uluwahu Paenima, A Translation into EnglishMacDougall, Bonnie G. (2008-05-02T16:59:33Z)This is a translation into English by Bonnie G. MacDougall of the Uluwahu Paenima, an undated popular liturgal manual written in Sinhala and circulated as an inexpensive chapbook for popular consumption in Sri Lanka. The Uluwahu Paenima contains verses and invocations to be recited in crossing the threshold, an important South Asian dwelling consecration rite. The text is part of a genre of popular works on housebuilding composed in the modern languages of South Asia.Item The Sinhala Maymataya, A Translation into EnglishMacDougall, Bonnie G. (2008-05-02T16:57:31Z)This is a translation into English by Bonnie G. MacDougall of the Mayimataya, a Sinhalese language work on housebuilding written by an unknown Sri Lankan author in 1837. The Sinhala Mayimataya is part of a modern language genre of housebuilding works circulated as inexpensive pamphlets or chapbooks throughout the South Asian culture area. The Mayimataya, like other works of its type, claims to be based on authoritative texts in Sanskrit. It contains 283 four lined verses.Item Text into Form: Dwelling, Cosmos and Design Theory in Traditional South AsiaMacDougall, Bonnie G. (2008-03-31T14:45:39Z)This is a work on dwellings in India and Sri Lanka that draws on ethnographic work in the South Asian region as well as on housebuilding manuals that have been composed in the constituent cultures. The history of architecture as we know it is the story of monumental works, especially of European traditions. The intention of this work is to explore the ways in which architecture is produced and interpreted in social locations that have received far less attention and thus to contribute to the record on architecture cross culturally and its place in human experience. Three South Asian popular manuals on dwelling construction and associated rites appear as part of this work.Item Mayimataya (Sinhala)Unknown (2007-10-23T20:29:50Z)The Mayimataya is a Sinhalese language work on housebuilding written by an unknown Sri Lankan author in 1837. It has become part of a modern language genre of housebuilding works circulated as inexpensive pamphlets or chapbooks throughout the South Asian culture area. The Mayimataya, like other works of its type, claims to be based on authoritative texts in Sanskrit. It contains 283 four lined verses.Item Uluwahu Paenima (Sinhala)(2007-10-23T20:27:54Z)The Uluwahu Paenima is a undated popular liturgal manual written in Sinhala and circulated as an inexpensive chapbook for popular consumption in Sri Lanka. It contains verses and invocations to be recited in crossing the threshold, an important South Asian dwelling consecration rite. It is part of a genre of popular works on housebuilding composed in the modern languages of South Asia.Item Sri Lalitha Navaratnam Maniadi SastiramM. R. Ry. Gopala Iyer (2007-10-23T20:06:32Z)The Sri Lalitha Navaratnam Manaiadi Sastiram is a work on housebuilding in prose from the Tamil speaking area of South India. It was compiled in 1914 and is said to be based on the teachings of the great sage Maya. It belongs to a genre of works on housebuilding circulated in the modern languages of South Asia. Published in 1914.Item Sinhalese Domestic Life In Space and TimeMacDougall, Robert D.; MacDougall, Bonnie G. (South Asia Program, Cornell University, 1977)This is a report on the content, organization and use of Sinhalese domestic space. It is based on research carried out in 1965 and 1968 in a contemporary but traditional community (hereafter called Rangama, a pseudonym) which is located in a remote area of the Kandyan highlands in Central Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon).Item Jantar Mantar: Architecture, Astronomy, and Solar Kingship in Princely IndiaMacDougall, Bonnie G. (The Cornell Journal of Architecture, 1996)The gigantic masonry astronomical instruments built by the Maharaja Jai Singh of Jaipur are among the most startling and visually compelling monuments in the entire Indian architectural record. The power of these astronomical insturments to arrest the viewer derives in part from their stylistic departure from the rest of the Indian architectural legacy, especially traditional Hindu forms.