Essay name: Arts in the Puranas (study)
Author:
Meena Devadatta Jeste
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Pune
This essay studies the Arts in the Puranas by reconstructing the theory of six major fine arts鈥擬usic, Dance, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Literature鈥攆rom the Major and Minor Puranas. This thesis shows how ancient sages studied these arts within the context of cultural traditions of ancient India.
Chapter 3 - Architecture in the Puranas
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- 162- Sikhara should be decorated with various figures. It should neither be skull-shaped nor pointed like a sula. The remaining eight Sikharas should have Kuharas and be equipped with Jalas and Gavaksas. The Sikharas at all places should have amalasarakas, Chakras, Pat膩k膩s and Dhvajas. This temple rising high looks like being crowned in the sky. Dr.Stella Kramrisch has compared this Sarvatobhadra variety with the Avantiswami temple in Kashmir and Keshava temple at Somanathpur in Mysore. Dr. Ararisch has also made the eight fold division of these hundred temples viz.(1) Himavat (2) Srigavat (3) Valabhi (4) Malyavat (5) Linga (6) Caturasra (7) Grha and (8) Kailasa, and tried to identify and compare the architectural remains with these temples. 78 Dr. Tarapada Bhattacharya says: "Almost all the 20
Nagara temples are mentioned here. There are in addition
several names similar to those of South Indian temples. I
therefore, think the list to be mainly that of Nagara temples
of a later period. #79
Dr. Priyabala Shah has classified some of these
temples on the basis of their shapes -
Nagara temples - Inanda, Grha, Valabhi
Dravida temples- Alaka, Ekabhumika, Catuskakah, Tribhumi,
Digbandha, Dvibhumika, Nandana, Pancatah,
Pariyatra, Meru, Mandara, Vimana and
Suktimat
