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The Structural Temples of Gujarat a detailed notice of which has been taken by the learned author of 'Hindu temple” Dr. Stella Kramrisch.
The Linga-Purāņa* (9th Cent. A. D. )86 has single chapter ILVIII on sacrificial pits, temples and the installation of deities, The Agni Purāņa* ( 9th-10th Cent. A. D. )89
The Agni Purāņa, otherwise known as Āgneya, has dilated the subject of architecture and sculpture at greater length. As seen above it submits the list of twenty-five authorative works on Silpa and Vastu-Vidyā ( Ch. XXXIX VV. 1-5). In the purāņa there are seventeen chapters 90 devoted to the topics of Vāstu-śāstra. Out of these only three chapters dealing with Nāgarādi Vāstu (Ch. CVI), Prásāda-Lakşaņa-Kathana (Ch. XLII) and Prāsāda-Laksana (Ch. CIV) are important from the view point of the study of the temple architecture. It describes fourty-five varieties of temples under five heads. The remaining thirteen chapters (i. e. Chapts. XLIII-XLVI; XLIX-LV; LX, LXII & CV) deal with iconography and sculpture, further there is a good deal of affinity between the Agni and Hayasirşa-pancarātra 9 i one of the traditional Tantra works * Bombay edition. 86. D. K. Shastri places this Purāņa contomporeous to Bhāgavata which according to him composed during 9th Cent. A. D.-(Purāņa -Vivecana pp. 207-209.) * Ag. P. Edited by Rajendra Mitra (Bibliotheca Indica) also English prose Transl. by Manmathanatha Dutt, Cal. 1903, Ch. XXXIX, and Ag. P. Bombay edition. 89. Shastri D. K. Purāņa Viveeana p. 216, 90. Ag, P. chapts. XXXIX, XL]), XLV, XLIX, -LV LX, LXII, CIV-CVI. 91. The text Hayasirsapancarātra, in Ms. form, is in the library of the Varendra Research Society , Rajshahi ( East Bengal ). Chapter I-XIV (Vol. 1) were published in 1952. A. D.; Chapt. XV-XLIV (Vol II) published in 1956. Dr. Stella Kramarisch has given its chapter Xlll Prāsāda Lakşaņa in Hindu temple Vol. II pp 429 ff. From the text it seems that the text pertains to the Dravidian school of temple architecture.
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