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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This 13 is odd .. for (3) put S. Similarly 13+1 = 14 and ** = 7 .. for (4) put s.
Proceeding in the same way 7+1 = 8 and s = 4, .. put 1 for (5) and 4 is still divisible by 2, 4= 2. This being an even number, put for (6) 1 and we get the details SSSS 11.
S S S S 1 1
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (0) The so-called Bathos of Dravidian temples:--
The Dravidian arrangement of temple construction places the sanctum sanctorum in the centre surrounded by consquaric enclosures, which may vary from one to sometimes as many as five. These enclosures are provided with entrance gates placed at the centres in each cardinal direction, with gigantic structures rising to several storeys in height, over them. These gates with structures over them are known as Gopuras. As the enclosures recede from the sanctum which is covered over in a gen known as far, the heights of Gopuras incrcase in regular gradation till the outermost enclosure is reached, where the Gopuras attain the greatest height. Thus the heights of the fasta over the sanctum, and of Gopuras, as one walks out of the innermost enclosure to the outermost go on increasing or reversely as onc enters the temple from the outermost Gopura and reaches the innermost courtyard in which the farin stands, the heights of structures go on decreasing. Such an arrangement of descending heights of Gopuras from outside to inside till the fênia which is the lowest in height is reached, is known as the bathos. This bathos, it may be added, constitutes an important distinguishing feature of the Dravidian Architecture.
Mr. Ananthalwar's vindication of this bathos of Dravidian tcmples (Vide; Indian Architecture by M. A. Ananthalwar, Book II, chapter III) atrophical Vimina witi huge pyramidal Gopuras outside is based on two consideratioils 1. the religious ideals of Hindu Shastra, and 2, Canons of Architecture of the Dravidian School.
If one were to bear in mind the canons of Architecture of both the Nagara and Dravidian schools and also to study aright the ileals of Hindu worship, he will irresistably come to the conclusion that his remark about Fergusson's references to the Pyrainids without the least regard to the basic laws underlying the principles' arc guite wide of the mark. The motit was well understood and the question neiilier of want of scale nor of harmony in the arrangement of Pyramids did not arise.
Let us now turn to thic Hindu religious idcal in brick -“To i truly Indian mind, the tennple ought to be the centre of lor spiritual contemplation, and all attractions of linc cxtcrral scns: (afsftta) should end by the time the devotce reaches thc (* ) !" interior portions of the temple. The higher inner entutions (@afifra) should thich begiu tu wabic up. For this purpose, tlıc iincst landscapes