Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

Author(s): Upendramohan Sankhyatirtha
Publisher: Metropolitan Printing and Publishing House Limited

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(13 has as yet come under my own observation, is exclusively on the subject of sculpture as connected with the function of statues ; but it is so diffuse, that if we suppose the whole work to be written in a similar style, it must considerably exceed the volume of Man isāra, the largest at present of my collection."
There is also, the Sanatlumāra-vā stuśāstra:9, of Sanatkumāra, who acknowledges his debt to other Acāryas, among whom are Candra and Yama, Bhārgava, Angiras, Manu, Vyāsa,
Bhrgu.
38. Rām Rāz; Essay on the Architeclure of the Hindus, (London, M. DCCC. xxxiv.) p. 8.
"The small portion which has come under my observation of the work called sacal idhic ira,--'the universal authority', does not furnish sufficient data to form any opinion of the precise time at which it was composed ; and in the section which gives rules for carving statues, "...the only part...seen, I hnd no mention of the saints..." ''who have been admitted among the inferior divinities." "It is generally believed to have been composed by Agastya, under the auspices of the founder of the Piindya government, a circumstance which, if admitted, would give to this work a very high antiquity. Mr. Wilson),...places this event three or four centuries before the Christian era, although in another place he fixes the date of the civilization of the South of India, ten centuries before Christ, but the data on which this conjecture is formed is imperfect. There exists a long list of the princes of the Prindya, and their contemporary Chola and Chin dynasties, many of whom appear to have reigned long anterior to the Christian ära, and their celebrity to have attracted the notice of Ptolemy. The sew facts,...recorded of those dynasties ...are unfortunately inadequate to the formation of...sketch of their history, or to trace their chronology ..; but the various accounts...of these ancient monarchies, though they usually commence with the earliest ages, and are blended with... fictions, would still afford...proofs of the establishment of these principalities at an earlier period than...hitherto assigned. And as the Mahibhiirat, which is believed to have been composed by Vyúsa, in the beginning of Kaliyug, makes mention of the Pindya and Chola governments, we must give them credit for higher antiquity." Ram Raz, op. cit., p. 10-11..
39. P.K. Acharya : Op. cit., p. 102. For Mss., see Eggeling, III. 3151, 2680 ; Oppert, Vol. I, No. 8239. In Orient. Mss. Libr., Madras, Cat. Vol. XXII, Nos., 13060-13068, there are nine Mss., mostly fragments.