THE VIEWS ON SANSKRIT CULTURE AND ARCHITECTURE BY THE MEMBERS OF THE ASIATICK SOCIETY IN THE LATTER PART OF THE 18TH CENTURY : The characteristic views on Gentoo Architecture by the members of the Asiatick Society

Abstract

In the latter part of the 18th century, the researches on Indian Culture by the Asiatick Society, which was basically the subject of Sanskrit and its Literature. What this position secured is the discovery of the so-called "Indian-European". The members of the Society interpreted, what we understand Buddhistic, Hindu and Jain Architecture in India were built by Gentoo (or Hindu) in the ancient times, contrasted former times with reality. Such reading are reflected their views which they understood the history of Indian Architecture by the Sanskrit Literature.