Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

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

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There is also a Sarasvatiya-silpa-sastrato ascribed to
Sarasvati.
The Paulastya, Sarasvata, Manohalya, Brahma, Kaumudika, Nārāyaṇiya (Silpa-sastras ?) are also known through quotations11; similarly, are Vasistha, Narada, Varaha, Manḍavya12.
Indra, Bhargava, Angirasa, Dhruva, Gautama, Gargeya, Manu, Vyasa and Bḥrgu are also mentioned13
The Aparajita-precha is said to be revealed by God at the request of Aparajita; it was quoted by Hemadri while, the Aparajita-vāstu-śāstra1o is ascribed to Viśvakarman47
from.
A Gargi-samhita17a was known long ago and a Gārgyasamhitab also exists. Both have been preserved in modern copies.
40. Aufrecht: Op. cit., Vol. I, p. 714.
41. See Orient. Mss. Libr., Madras, Cat. Vol. XXII, No. 13058, Silpasamgraha. It expressly mentions the sources it has been compiled
42. See P. K. Acharya: A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture, Appendix I. p. 803. Quoted in Samgraha-siromani by Sarayu Prasad. 43. See Oriental Mss. Libr., Cat. Vol. XXII, No. 13057.
44.
An edition of the Aparajita-prccha was announced long ago in the GOS. But the work has not yet come out. Dr. Bhandarkar : Report (1883-84), p. 276, sub voce. Compare also Silpa-grantha in Eggeling: Op. cit., Mss. 3152, 1603b.
45. "Quoted by Hemadri in Pariseṣakhanda 2, 660-62, 819" Aufrecht Cat. Catalog. Vol II, p. 4.
46. Dr. Bühler: Catalogue of Sanskrit Mss. contained in private Libraries, 1872, p. 276.
47 a. Varahamihira's Brihat-samhiti. (Ed., Bibliotheca Indica). Introduction by Kern, p. p. 33 ff.
47 b. P. K. Acharya: A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture. Appendix I. sub. voce. "Mss. R. 15. 96., in Trinity College. Cambridge... in Devanagari character; copied in 1874."