Book Title: Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam
Author(s): Upendramohan Sankhyatirtha
Publisher: Metropolitan Printing and Publishing House Limited
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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(asirvacanam), the definition of the subject-matter (vastu-nirdesa) etc., in the regular Kavya style.
An attempt may be made to render these important passages back into rhythmic Sanskrit, from the German translations in Dr. B. Laufer's admirable edition of the text-the original version of which is probably lost, though a Tibetan translation of it has fortunately been preserved ab
आदौ चन्द्रमसं वन्दे महादेवं ततः परं चूडायामिन्दुशकलं मूर्ध्नि यः संबिभर्ति वै । 'विष्णुमयेन्द्र सूर्य जलाधिपानी तथा वायुं ततोऽभिवन्देऽहमेत्र प्रजापति- विश्वकर्मणौ ॥ ततः परं नमजितं पादयोः प्रणतोऽस्म्यहं सर्वानपि तथाचार्यान् कृताञ्जलिपुटैः करैः । यथानुक्रमतश्वित्रशास्त्राणां वर्णमाश्रितं यथामति यथाशक्ति मया किञ्चित् प्रवक्ष्यते ॥
सम्यक् परीक्ष्य संक्षेपान्मतानि विश्वकर्म - प्रह्लाद-नमजितानां
ततो धीमतां कृते हि जिज्ञासूनां समासाच्चित्रलक्षणं मया उक्तम् । तेनाधुना शृण्वन्तु तच्चित्रलक्षणं हि मत्तः पण्डितानां वियाम् अये ! ये निष्णाताः ।
The Matsya-puranam, the Agni-puranam, the Visvakarmaprakasa and the Brhat-samhita, probably have handed down the northern tradition of their times.
The Manasara 30 is the most complete architectural treatise
29b. These conjectural reconstructions unsatisfactory though, they might be of interest to those to whom the German and Tibetan editions are inaccessible or not sufficiently intelligible.
30. P. K. Acharya: Manasara. Chapters lxviii, 1xx. i, ii; also, Ibid: Indian Architecture according to Manasūra-śilpa-śāstra, pp. 164ff. "...Evidences are undoubtedly more authenticated and substantial ...regarding the connection of the Manasara with Matsya-purāna (450 A.D.) on the one hand and the Brihat-samhita (550 A.D.) on the other....We shall be justified in placing the Manasara before the Brhat-samhita and somewhere close to the Matsya-purana. In any event, we venture to hold that the evidences...warrant the extension of the period of Manasara from 500 to 700 A. D." P. K. Acharya; Op. cit., p. 198,
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