pleting

पूरण a. (

-णी f.) [पूर्-कर्तरि ल्यु]

1 Filling up, com- pleting.

-2 Ordinal (as applied to numbers) (द्वितीय, तृतीय &c.); न पूरणी तं समुपैति संख्या Ki.3.51.

-3 Satisfying.

-4 Drawing (as a bow).

-णः 1 A bridge, dam, causeway.

-2 The ocean.

-3 The Śālmali tree.

-4 A kind of medicinal oil (विष्णुतैलम्).

-णी 1 An epithet of Durgā.

-2 The silk-cotton tree.

-णम् 1 Filling

-2 Filling up, completing; कुम्भपूरणभवः पटुरुच्चैरुच्चचार निनदो$ म्भसि तस्याः R.9.73.

-3 Puffing or swelling.

-4 Ful- filling accomplishing.

-5 A sort of cake.

-6 A funer- al cake.

-7 Rain, raining.

-8 Warp.

-9 Multipli- cation (in math.).

-1 Injection of fluids (in Medic.)

-11 Drawing, bending (as a bow).

-12 Decorating, adorning.

-Comp. -प्रत्ययः an affix forming an ordinal number.

समस्या 1 Proposing part of a stanza to another to be completed, the part of a stanza so given to be com- pleted; कः श्रीपतिः का विषमा समस्या Subhāṣ.; (thus the lines वागर्थाविव संपृक्तौ; शतकोटिप्रविस्तरम्; तुरासाहं पुरोधाय are completed by नेमुः सर्वे सुराः शिवौ).

-2 (Hence) Com- pleting or filling up what is incomplete; गौरीव पत्या सुभगा कदाचित् कर्तेयमप्यर्धतनूसमस्याम् N.7.83 (समस्या = संघटनम्).

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Civil engineering

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From 1795 Rondelet was Professor at the Ecole Centrale des Travaux Publics and while there was responsible for a major treatise on building construction: this was his Traité théorique et pratique de l'art de bâtir, published in four volumes in 1802–17. From 1806 he taught at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, which was soon afterwards merged with the Ecole Polytechnique. It was when Rondelet took over the work of com-pleting the Panthéon in Paris, after the death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, that he had the opportunity of putting some of his particular structural ideas into practice. In 1755 the King had appointed Soufflot architect of the great new church to be dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Sainte Geneviève. In this neo-classical structure based upon Greek cross plan, Soufflot intended four slender piers, each encased in three engaged columns, to support the pendentives for the dome to rise over the crossing. It was a fine and elegant building on a large scale, but by the early nineteenth century, when the church had become a pantheon, cracks were appearing in the masonry. When Rondelet succeeded as architect after Soufflot's death, he strengthened and enlarged the piers, employing a faced concrete structure reinforced with metal. He used a metalreinforced mortar with rubble aggregate.

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