Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra

A royal compendium on building and machines

यह पृष्ठ अभी हिन्दी में अनूदित नहीं है। अंग्रेज़ी पाठ दिखाया जा रहा है।

Attributed to King Bhoja of Dhār, eleventh century: courtly, wide-ranging and the most northern of the major treatises.

It covers city form, palaces, houses, temples in the Nāgara idiom, painting and sculpture — and, famously, a chapter on yantras, mechanical devices from water-lifts to automata. The register is that of a patron's compendium rather than a craftsman's handbook.

For that reason its prescriptions often assume resources and scale that ordinary building never had; read it for the range of what was thought possible, and Mayamata or Mānasāra for what was built.

ग्रंथ की विषय-वस्तु

1. 1City and settlement form
2. 2Palace and residence
3. 3Nāgara temple form
4. 4Yantras — mechanical devices
5. 5Painting and image-making

Read alongside: Shukla, Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra (Sanskrit ed.)