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Samarangana Sutradhara of Srimaharajadhiraja Bhojadeva (5 Vols. Set)

by Prabhakar P Apte, Smt. Sanjeevani Apte, Er. Arvind Phadnis & Dr. Chintaman Kand

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Author : Prabhakar P Apte, Smt. Sanjeevani Apte, Er. Arvind Phadnis & Dr. Chintaman Kand

Publisher : Indira Gandhi National Centre For The Arts

Language : Sanskrit and English

ISBN : Vol-I - 9789391045579 Vol-II - 9789391045517 Vol-III - 9789391045586 Vol-IV - 9789391045593 Vol-V - 9789391045609

Item Code : IGNCA054

Pages : 2160

Weight : 7 KG

Dimensions : 27 X 21 CM

Edition : 2021

Binding : HARDCOVER

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Samarangana Sutradhara of Srimaharajadhiraja Bhojadeva Critically Edited and Translated by Prabhakar P Apte (Set of 5 Volumes),is one of the most celebrated Sanskrit treatises on architecture (vāstu), town planning, sculpture, and mechanical arts in pre-modern India. The five-volume set presents the complete, critical exposition of this encyclopedia,Principles of Vastussstra- site selection, orientation, measurements, proportions, and auspicious layouts, Urban Planning- design of cities, forts, palaces, streets, markets, gardens, and water systems, Religious Architecture- detailed classifications of temples (Nagara, Draviḍa, Vesara), mandapas, vimanas, and iconographic canons, Domestic & Civic Structures- houses, pavilions, wells, tanks, gateways, and public buildings, Sculpture & Iconography- rules for images of deities, human figures, Mechanical Devices (Yantras)- remarkable descriptions of machines, including water-lifting devices and self-moving mechanisms—evidence of advanced technological imagination, Ritual, Aesthetics, and Symbolism: the spiritual and cosmological foundations underlying architectural form, The Samarangana Sutradhara, an encyclopedia of medieval Indian science and technology, is ascribed to Maharaja Bhoja of the Parmar dynasty, that ruled the Malwa region of India in the eleventh century A.D. The work is composed in eighty-three chapters which deal with eight major components of architectural engineering (Vastu-Sastra) comprising, Sketching the site-person (Vastu-Purusa Mandala): Town-planning (Pura-nivesa): Settlement of royal palace complex (Raja-prasada-nivesa): Town flag (Indra-dhvaja): Royal mansion (Raja-grha): Residential houses, as per the four social orders (Caturvarnya-vibhaga-Grha-vibhaga): The chamber of sacrifice and the procedure of constructing it (Yajna-sala-mana): Military Engineering including army-camp-settlement and hill-fort-construction (Sivira evam Durga-nivesa).

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