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Sources of Architectural Canons
275 subject of Dhvajadanda also is given here. In Ch. XI five fold divisions of ground plan of Nāgara Prāsāda are given. The last chapter XII deals with the subject of the construction of Sandhāra prasāda.154
These are the eminent known writers on architecture, who flourished in the first half of the Second millenium. 158 As regards the bearing of their treatises on Gujarat it may be noted that (i) Samasāņgana belong to Medapāța (Mewad) which being in vicinity of Gujarat was in close contact with it, (ii) that the personal history of the author of Aparajitapracchā
154. Some more works available on architecture are : Pramāṇamanjarı of Sūtradhāra Malla (Formerly published by N. Y. Gosai (1932 ). Recently, it is critically edited by Dr. (Miss ) Priyabala Shah and published in the M. S. University Oriental Series No. 3, Baroda ( 1958). The work deals with the construction of residential houses and contains no section on temple architecture. A number of other works on architecture are known from lists of MSS. some of them are, Prayoga Manjari Samhită of Shri Kantha (MS. Nos. 3591: & 1735), Vastu Kambāsutram and Sukhānanda vāstu of Sukhānda (MS No. 8263 & 3605 respectively ) and Vāstupaddhati of Tribhuvan Bhatta ( M. S. No. 12601) collected in the Oriental Institute, Baroda. The works known as Bedāyā prāsada tilaka of Sūtradhāra Virapāla, Vāstupradipa of Pandit Vāsudeva, Vastukaustubha of Sūtradhāra Ganesa, Västvadhyāya of Sūtradhāra Kausika are also referred to by Shri P. O. Sompura in Dīpārņva Into. p. 41. These works are all unpublished and hence it is not known whether any of them deal with temple architecture. Probably, most of them seem to be on secular architecture. 155. Some more works on architecture have comeforth in the last two Centuries. They are more or less compilation of extracts from earlier works mentioned above. Noteworthy among them are Laghu Silpa Jyotișsāra compiled by S. U. Sutar (1895); Śilpa Šāstra Sāra Samgraha by Atmaram (1898); “ilpa Dipaka by Gangadhara (2nd edi. 1912), Brhad Śilpa Šāstra Pt. I (1931), Pt. II (1934) Pt. III (1936) by J. A. Sompura; Silpa Ratnākara by N. M. Sompura (1939) and Kalyāņa Kalikā Pt. I (1956) by Muni Kalyanvijaya.
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