Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

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

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[ 28 ] Indeed, the beginnings of the Vastu-śāstras and the Silpaśāstras are to be traceable to the Vedāngir Jyautism, (Kalpa) Gulra. sūtraso? on the one hand, and to the l'antrika ritualistic Yantras and Mandalasel etc., on the other. .. .
Among the treatises on Nīti and its sub-class Vārtā and on Jyotiņa, the Arthuśāstra of Kautilya, the Sukraniti and the Brhatsamhitā of Varāhamihira call for special notice.
The Indian Artha and the Niti śāstras have been called poly-technical treatises 65 ; and the Vārtā appertains to Economics.86
The Arthasāstra of Kautilya devotes some six or seven chapters to town-planning, the construction of residential buildings and fort, and specially military architecture. The Arthaśāstra of Kautilya is an old work but in its present form not older than the 3rd century A.C.87
In "Kautiliya Arthasastra, Viśālākşa, Bāhudantiputra, Brhaspati and Uśanas have been cited as teachers of Artha. Compare also Kāmasītra, p. 3f., where it is narrated, that from the great work by the creator Brahman on the Trivarga, Manu separated the part dealing with Dharma, Bệhaspati—that on Artha and Nandin, Siva's servant-the one on kama. Mahābhārata, XII, 59, 28ff, 76ff.'
contain exact rules for the measurement (Sulva means "measuringstring") and the building of the place of sacrifice and the fire-altars, and as the oldest works on Indian Geometry, are of no little importance for the history of science."
63. See Note 62. Supra.
64. For examples, see tarefacial Sharadāti lakatantram, with commentary getafe Pidurthādarsha. Edited by Atalānanda Sarasvati. Tantrik Texts Vols, XVI. and XVII. Patala 3.
65. P. K. Acharya : Ind. Arch, p. 132.
66. Narendranath Law: Vārtā—The ancient Hindu Economics, Ind. Antiq., Vol. XLVII, p. 256.
67. M. Winternitz : Geschichte der indischen Litteratur, III Band, (Leipzig. 1922), p. 523,..