Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

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

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( 36 ) the musicians along with the cut-throats, charlatans and rascals.89
And, yet the silpa, the Sangīta and the Natya etc., which have all reputed Rsis of hoary antiquity, as their founders, owed their birth to divine inspiration. We have, therefore, here, another set of apparent paradoxes of Indian culture, which should provoke serious enquiry.
Very elaborate descriptions are given of the merits (Phalaśruti and Artha-vāla) for raising pious foundations, or erecting sacred structures such as the dedication of an image that would accrue on the part of the donor, (danapati).90 Arts of music and
"सूबधरी विमानान्तु शापेन पतितो भुवि ।
शीघ्रञ्च यज्ञकाष्ठानि न ददौ तेन हेतुना ॥" 1, 3 'अनाद। যজ্ঞকাস্থ শীঘ্র দান না করে ব্রাহ্মণে।
শাপে সূত্রধর সে পতিত এ কারণে ।। 2 "व्यक्ति(ति)क्रमेण चित्राणां सद्यश्चित्रकरस्त था।
पतितो ब्रह्मशापेन ब्राह्मणानाञ्च कोपतः॥" I, 3 'अनाज । ক্রমভিন্ন চিত্রদোষে জানি চিত্রকরে ।
শাপ দিয়া পতিত করিল বিবরে । 2 98. For example, see the rare old Niti-sastra, Caksusiyam, fragments of which have been traced and published for the first time-A. S. Ramanath Ayyar : Chaksusiyam-an Arthasastra. JBORS Vol.XI, pp. 81-84.
90. तथा हि--ौगोपालमहकते 'श्रीहरिभक्तिविलास'-१८ विलास-श्रीमूर्त्याविर्भावमाहात्मा'विणुधर्मोत्तरे। देवस्य प्रतिमायान्तु यावन्तः परमाणव: ; तावहर्षसहस्राणि विणलोके महीयते ।' तथा--'श्री हरि०-- १९ विलास-श्रीमूर्ति प्रतिष्ठामाहात्मा'मात्मा। प्रतिष्ठायाः सुराण च देवता नको मात ।
देवयज्ञोत्सवा पि बन्धनेन विमुच्यते॥' तथा---'संधुभाषित-प्रतिमालक्षण-विवरण्याम्' ।
यावन्तः परमाणवो भगवत्स्तू पेषु विम्वषु वा । तत्कात्त दिवि भूतले च नियतं तावन्ति-॥ ------संपदोऽखिला
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