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ARCHITECTURE above, and subjectwise, by putting architecture into various types of failis like Någara, Vesara, Dravida, etc.
While some of these texts, like the Dipärnava of Visvakarman,' the Rupa-mand ana* and Präsåda-mandana, both of Mandana, the Vastu-manjari of Nathaji," etc., deal inter alia with Jaina architecture, perhaps the only book independently written on Jaina architecture is the Vatthu-sara-payarana in Prakrit," with three chapters devoted respectively to residential houses, iconography and temple-architecture. The treatise, with two hundred and seventy-three gåthås was completed on the Vijayā-daśami day of Vikrama-samvat 1372 (A.D. 1315) during the reign of 'Alau'd-Din Khilji in Kalyānapura by Pheru, son of the Jaina Sri-candra in the Dhandha-kalaśa-kula. In the same year, in Delhi, he completed another treatise the Ratna-parikşā, which is perhaps published in the Thakkura-Pheru-Granthăvali."
SOME DIRECTIONS ON BUILDINGS
The upakaranas or tools and instruments basically needed for measurement, etc., according to the Vatthu-sära-payaraņa, are eight in number; drști-sütra or the thread of sight, meant for judging the exact measurement only by the sight; hasta, literally a cubit or a measure generally equal to twenty-four angulas or 45 cm.; mauñja or a cord made of muñja grass; kārpāsaka or the stringmade of cotton; avalamba or the plumb-line; kāştha-kona or the trying-angle; sādhani, corresponding to the present-day spirit-level; and vilekhya or a pair of dividers. Besides these, there might have been in use many more instruments, references to which could be found in various sources.
The samagri or material, right from the brick and wood to gold and precious stones, should be of the best quality. Fresh and not second-hand
1 Ed. P. O. Somapura, Palitana. ? Ed. Bal Ram Shrivastava, Vārāṇasī, 1964. 3 Ed. Bhagwan Das Jain, Ahmedabad, 1961.
Ed. P.O. Somapura under the name Prasada-man jari, Ahmedabad, 1965.
* Ed. Bhagwan Das Jain, Jaipur, 1936. Parts of the present chapter are based on this text unless otherwise stated. (For the importance of this text, sce above, chapter 28.-Editor.]
Bhagwan Das Jain, op. cit., says that a manuscript of this book, with the first folio missing, was acquired by him through Muni Darsanavijaya from Sri-Caritravijaya of the Jaina Jiana Mandira, the founder of the Yasovijaya Jaina Gurukula.
Edited by Bhanwar Lal Nahata and mentioned in Muni Sri Hazarimala Smrti-grantha (Hindi), Benwar, 1966, p. 105 (Lekhaka-paricaya).
Generally based on the Vatthu-sära-payarana.
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