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accept the current tradition. Of these teachers Visvakarma
and Maya, to whom many extant architectural treatises are
ascribed are common in the Matsya Purana, the Brhat-sa峁僪ita
and the Manasara. In the Manasara (the standard treatise
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on architecture), it is stated in a mythical geneology of the
artists that from the four faces of Brahma originated the
four heavenly architects, namely Visvakarma, Maya, Tvasta and
Their four sons were called respectively, Sthapati or
the chief architect, Sutra-grahin or the designer, Vardhaki
or the painter and Taksaka or the carpenter.
Maya are referred to in the epics and the Pali Jatakas as the
architects of gods and demons respectively and the epics have
mentioned many great deeds of these architects. The two
different schools of architecture in India, the Dravida school
of the South and the one prevalent in the North recognise Maya
and Visvakarma as the ultimate authorities respectively.
Among the other preceptors on Vastuvidya, Vasistha
and Nagnajit are mentioned by Varahamihira in his Brhat-Sa峁僪it膩.
Nagnajit has been quoted in the commentary of Bhattotpala.
Another sage, Atri was mentioned in the Brhat-Samhita (Ch. 46)
as the disciple of Garga. Vasistha and Narada are quoted in
the Vasturatnavali. Garga was undoubtedly a very ancient
writer on Vastuvidy膩. Varahamihira summarized his work.
Bhattotpala has quoted largely from Garga. Brahaspati was a
teacher of Narada and has been quoted by Bhattotapala. Saunaka
and Sukra were also well known names. Dr. T. Bhattacharya has