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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be rationally and equally advanced in support of the climax or reverse arrangement to bathos as explained above. The introduction of this element of Hindu religious ideal in the consideration of bathos will seem to have little utility when viewed in the above light. It is quite clear that the Hindu idea! of contemplation and the realization, by his Bhakti, of the One Divine Soul, by excluding himself from the outside world of pomp and selfishness is vividly materialized in the design of Hindu Architects for a town or temple. The place of worship is the sanctuary which should be as secluded as possible and nevertheless ihe most inspiring for meditative purposes. The above ideal is satisfied by the arrangement of temple construction according to the school of Architecture with climax as the determining factor, as much as by the Dravidian arrangement wherein the bathos plays an important part.
Now, the second ground for justification of bathos of the Dravidian temple arrangement-Canons of Dravidian Architecture, no doubt, prescribe that the heights of Gopuras should go on increasing from the inside to the outside; it may be twice the height of Vimana or even more perhaps; but it may be emphasized that it has no religious or spiritual motif behind it. The height of gt agreeably to the Northern school of Architecture, on the contrary, is equally regulated by canons of Architecture which, are diametrically opposite to those of Dravidian literature. The age in the a school has 3/4ths the height of a प्रासाद as will be seen from the following- प्रासादस्य पादहीनं गोपुरस्याच्छ्रितिर्भवेत्. (Vide V. 22 a 42 of fagu"). The Hindu religious ideal, here, too, has not much to do. In the नागर arrangement as described in the अग्निपुराण, the view presented by structures gives rise to a known as 6.
It may be mentioned, en passant, that the Northern school of of Architecture recognizes 6 main or primary s as they are termed. Rhetoric, Music and Architecture stand upon a common platform su far as these primary s go. They are मेरु, खण्डभेरु, सूची, पताका, उद्दिष्ट and नष्ट when reduced to their simplest form. These as in Architecture have reference to go and g or walls, doorways and af. The of a means" the disposition of a structure or more explicitly "the view of a structure as presented by its contour against the sky" or "the perspective view of a structure." Such contours of structures assume multifarious forms as structures vary to suit the different classes of men and to satisfy different functions. Dravidian bathos in the lan guage of ultimately resolves itself into one phase of use. As it is, it is nothing more nor less than two ts placed with their bases in such a way that their vertical sides are away from cach other
C
B giving rise to the outline ACB in the direction E and
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W, and similarly of two more s placed in the same position and in the direction S and N, thus eventually giving rise to a hollow trough or valley formed by four ass in four cardinal directions arranged in the particular manner described above. It those as with all their