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The Manasara is a comprehensive text on architecture and design, part of the larger corpus of the Vaastu Shastras and Shilpa Shastras, which provide guidelines on the principles of Indian architecture and construction. These texts blend technical design aspects with deep symbolic meaning derived from Hindu cosmology and traditions.
Shilpa Shastras (Sanskrit: शिल्प शास्त्र śilpa śāstra) literally means the Science of Shilpa (arts and crafts). [1] [2] It is an ancient umbrella term for numerous Hindu texts that describe arts, crafts, and their design rules, principles and standards.
According to Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty, formerly director (1994–2000) of the IGRMS and member secretary (2004–2009) of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, "the museum at Bhopal does not consider the past alone as its preserve, the Indian tribal or prehistoric man as its only concern, or the indigenous traditional knowledge ...
The text lists and discusses the various designs of temples, housing, water infrastructure, sculpture, pillars, domes, arrangement of architectural space (chanda) and such topics. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Some sections present the theory behind Hindu and Jain temples in north and western parts of India, useful in appreciating the Maru-Gurjara style of ...
The text is significant in its discussion about Nagara, Dravida, [9] Bhumija and other diversified styles of Hindu temples. [10] It is particularly notable for the sections that match with the unfinished 11th-century temple in Bhojpur (Madhya Pradesh) and the earliest known architectural drawings of a Hindu temple engraved on the surrounding rocks.
The architectural style of the temple is Kath-Kuni (also known as Koti-Banal), and it is included in the Archaeological Survey of India’s list of ancient temples in the Dehradun . Mahasu Devta is not only an arbiter over mortals but also reigns supreme over numerous indigenous gods and goddesses.
In the modern spoken Hindi of the region, however, there is a common metathesis in which the vowel and consonant sounds in the second syllable of certain words (including धर्म) are transposed, which changes 'dharma' to 'dharam' (pronounced somewhere between [ˈdʱərəm] and [ˈdʱərm], depending on the speaker). Thus, if the goal of ...
Deula is an architectural element in a Hindu temple in the Kalinga architecture style of the Odishan temples in Eastern India. [1] Sometimes the whole temple is also referred to as Deula . The word "deula" in Odia language means a building structure built with a particular style that is seen in most of the temples from Odisha. [ 2 ]