Aparajitaprucchha

SR No.: 008438
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: B Bhattacharya
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Total Pages: 810
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Culture, & Art
File Size: 12 MB

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from
and qua, for the elucidation of this feature. This third element is aft over and above the slope and general direction of run of the site. The introduction of this extra element is a deviation from the general rule so far as the art of a is concerned. All the same the absence of this phase of in an exhaustive treatise like ufagza and cannot but be striking and thought provoking.
सूत्र 176-178 स्त्रीप्रासादs and नपुंसकप्रासाद
Some as are regarded as male, others as female and some more again as a (neuter). Ordinarily they are so named from Sanskrit termination for these lingas. fits in music are said to be female Ragas simply because their names end in %, a feminine termination. So is the case with us and ages.
The tendency of personification of inanimate objects is discover able in the ancient literature of India. Tito Vignoli in his treatise on myth and science observes that this tendency of personifying inanimate objects is more or less prevalent not only among the human race, civilized or barbarous, but even with animal kingdom. He naturally concludes that as knowledge progresses, this tendency decreases etc.
g
is no exception to this tendency. It would not be amiss, if the distinctive modes of structural composition in this classification of areas into male, female, and neuter are considered.
arers belong to the
so far as their ground plan etc. is concerned. Here a length is invariably greater than their fata, breadth cf. the 25 typical 176. Their वलभी ( दीघा प्रासादिका or 3), too, has its roof with the form of the back of an elephant.
as in
age
The नपुंसकप्राeres have their शिखरs of the form of फोसना, They have घंटा, उरुघंटा, etc., instead of a full-fledged शिखर.
The structural distinctive modes are here defined in accordance with the नागर view of प्रासादs.
According to the
,"masculine buildings are equiangular, and have male deities in them. if buildings are rectangular and have female deities; but the male deities can also be installed in them. It is silent about नपुंसकप्रासादs.
Measures of all kinds required for the smallest art, e.g. bedsteads, fara, mouldings, ornaments, etc. to the largest, e. g. streets, townships, highways across the country etc. are prescribed at great length in . These measures start from the lowest basic unit, i. e. a very minute particle of dust floating in the air, and rise, in gradational series, eventually to the highest at etc. Such an all-embracing nature of these tables notwithstanding, it is really surprising to notice that a kind of measurement used in the design of several Royal appendages,