Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

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

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'Visālākṣa-the great-eyed one, is one
name of Śiva.
And Bahudantin is another name of Indra'.s In the Matsya Purāṇa, Viśālākṣa, Nandin, Indra, Sukra and Brhaspati are, all of them, cited as teachers of Silpa.89
Among them Nandikeśvara or Nandisvara was also an ancient teacher of Kamasastra. Besides, this there is one Nandikesvara who was the author of an work on Abhinaya-Abhinayadarpanam, 'the Mirror of Gestures'." 70
'Bṛhaspati is at the same time a teacher of the Lokayata system, and there is close relationship, between Lokayata and Arthasastra. From the Mahabharata, it is learnt, that the Indian Tradition regarded Brhaspati as the Founder of the Arthasastra. This old Arthasastra of Brhaspati, alas, is preserved to us only in a version strongly altered and mixed-up with modern elements.'71
'The Sukraniti i. e., the Textbook on Politics written by Śukra or Uśanas is a work of quite recent times, if we do not call
68. See Dr. M. Winternitz: Geschichte der indischen Litteratur, III Band. (Leipzig. 1922), pp. 507-8 and p. 508 Note I. Free translation of this Note is given above.
69. See Text and Note 25. Supra.
70. Nandikeśvara's Abhinaya-darpanam. Edited by Manomohan Ghosh. Calcutta Sanskrit Series. No. 5. (Metropolitan Printing and Publishing House, Ltd. Calcutta, 1934). For further information regarding Nandikeśvara, see the present writer (Haridas Mitra's): Sadasiva Worship. J.P.A.S.B. (New Series). Vol. XXIX, 1933. App. III, see under Nandi. kesvara.
71. M. Winternitz: Geschichte der indischen Litteratur, Band III, p. 508. (The above passage has been rendered freely into English, from this book, by the present writer.
72. M. Winternitz: Op. cit., p. 532 (Free Translation). "Besides the edition of Sukraniti of G. Oppert (Madras, 1882) there is also one of Jivananda Vidyasagara (Calcutta, 1882) and several Indian Prints with translations in Bengali, Marathi and Hindi. Text another Ed. by B. K. Sarkar (New York, 1915); Eng. Transl., by the same (Allahabad). On