Essay name: Architectural data in the Puranas
Author:
Sharda Devi
Affiliation: Himachal Pradesh University / Department of History
This essay studies ancient Indian architectural science as found in technical treatises and the Puranas, with special reference to the Matsya, Garuda, Agni and Bhavishya Puranas. These texts detail ancient architectural practices, covering temple and domestic designs, dimensional specifications, and construction rules.
Chapter 3 - Temples
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. 132 莫艢GP, pt. III, ch. XII, 16; also Stella Kramrisch, op. cit., pp. 135-136;
Ksirarnava, 9.19: Ibid., 13.6.
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H.C. Bhiyani, Aspects of Jain Art and Architecture, ed., U.P. Shah
and M.A. Dhaky, Gujrat Slab Committee for the celebration of
2500th Anniversary of Bhagwan Mahavir Nirvan, 1975, p. 23.
Ibid., K.R. Srinivasan, Archaelogical Remains, Monuments and
Museums, pt. 1. ASI, p. 107; G.C. Pande, Baudha Dharma Ke
Vik膩sa K膩 Itih膩sa, 2nd edn., Lucknow, 1976, p. 205.
The rule that the width of the wall on the outside should be
twice the width of the garbhag峁沨a is observed in the sixth century
AD. BS, 55. 12: MP 269.1; cf. Bhuvanapradipa, LXXXIII, quoted
and translated by N.K. Basu, in Canons of Orissan Architecture,
p. 119.
BS, 55. 11.
MP, 269.8; GP, 1.47.10-13.
Haya艣墨r峁pa帽car膩tra, XIII. 318; AP, 9-11. The more general
reference seems to be the Linga. The connection of Linga and
temple appears more close and may be more original than that of
image and temple.
莫艢GP, III. Ch. XXVIII.
脧艢GP, III. Ch. XXVII. 62 f; treats of the 'bricks'. The AP, 41.11,
similarly says that the whole pr膩s膩da is to be understood as purusa
