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Prayogamanjari and Saivagamanibandhana (Study)

by R. Suthashi | 2010 | 31,491 words

This study deals with the iconography found in the Prayogamanjari and Saivagamanibandhana: Sanskrit books dealing Temple-construction and Shilpa-Shastra: the ancient Indian science of of arts and crafts.—The Prayoga-Manjari was written by Ravi of Matharakula in the 10th century AD whereas the Shaivagama-Nibandhana is authored by Murari-Bhatta from ...

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NOTES 1. iti muraribhattiye saivagamanibandhane sahasrakalasasnapanavidhih | Saivagamanibandhana is not yet published. Dr. K.M. Sangamesan, Lecturer, Dept. of Sahitya, SSUS, Kalady, was able to locate the Ms of the work during his survey of Ms/Ts for his Ph.D. work Prayogamanjari of Ravi - A Critical Study (unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, submitted to University of Calicut in 2004). Dr. K.M. Sangamesan has given a brief study on Saivagamanibandhana in his Ph.D. Thesis (pp. 90-98). The Ts of Saivagamanibandhana is with him. The scholar has used that Ts for the present study and the Slokas quoted from Saivagamanibandhana in the present study are from that. .....lingannirmalyamuddhrtya gadhe'mbhasi ca niksipet | yathoktam 2. nibandhane - 3. 4. aksatanam purananam devananca svayambhuvam / snanadi sarvam kartavyamavivasanavarnitam // pradyotah, trivikramakrtah, prayogamanjarivyakhya, ekavimsati patalah, Tvm. MSS library 413 a/249, p. 286. ...... tatra brahmananam sarvani lingani grahyani | ksatriyanam svani, vaisyanam vihitani cetyadi ca kalpayatu / tatha nibandhane dvikarantam ca pancadi vipradinam kramat smrtam / ekahastam tu yallingam pratiloma (ca / ja) mucyate || (II, 120) The Tantrasamuccaya of Narayana with the commentary Vimarsini of Sankara, edited by T. Ganapathy Sastri (2 parts), Published under the authority of the Govt. of Ramavarma Kulasekhara Maharaja, Trivandrum, 1919, p. 123. mayamatayugalam prayogamanjaryapi ca nibandhanabhaskariyayugmam/ manumatagurudevapaddhatih sri hariyajvanadi mahagamajayanti || (Manushyalaya Chandrika, I, 7) 110

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5. 6. 7. Manusyalayacandrika, Commentary of K. Nilakanthanasari, S.T.R. Publications, Kollam, 1999. iti sarvagamanibandhane mantrapatalah dvitiyah / Quoted in the thesis Prayogamanjari of Ravi - A Critical Study, p. 92. Ibid. Dr. Sivakumaraswamy, the great Sanskrit Scholar from Karnataka, while the present scholar was discussing this topic with him, defined the word 'Mantri' as the person who knows all the Mantras. The text Saivagamanibandhana uses the word Mantri in a context as sitamalyambaro mantri sahayaissilpibhih saha / (Saivagamanibandhana, XIV, 2). 8. For the summary of the verses, vide supra. Chapter II, Iconography in Prayogamanjari, pp. 32-33. 9. 10. Mandala means a circular array of lines, vide The Practical Sanskrit - English Dictionary, Vaman Shivram Apte, Motilal Banarasidass Publishers, Delhi, 1995, p. 733. For details of the myth Vide Vastusastra, Vol. II, Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting (with an anthology of Pratimalaksana and Citralaksana as well as An outline history of Indian Painting, archaeological and literary), Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, Delhi, 1996, p. 246. 11. Vide Elements of Hindu Iconography, Vol. I, Part I, p. 12. 12. Vide For more details Ibid. 13. Vide Vastusastra, Vol. II, p. 246. 14. Vide for more details, Ibid, p. 247. 15. Vide Elements of Hindu Iconography, Vol. II, pp. 80-85. 16. Vide Ibid. 17. dharalingam sarvalinge matam tanmule'stasram va kalasram yugasram/ tasmadurdhvam dvaigunam syat sadharam dharalingam sarvavarne prasastam // (Mayamata, 33, 81) 111

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18. caturasram dvirastasram tanmule parikalpayet / vaisnavamse ca saivamse dharadvidvigunikrte // sarvesamapi varnanam dharalingam tridha matam / (Isanasivagurudeva-paddhati, Uttarardha, 37, 64) 19. 20. Vide Elements of Hindu Iconography p. 96. Vide for more details, Ibid., pp. 96-97. 21. Vide Supra., pp. 54-55. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Vide Elements of Hindu Iconography p. 123. Vide Studies in Hindu Iconography, Vol. II, N. V. Mallayya, Dr. V, Madhukar Mallayya and Anitha Mallayya, Trhiruvananthapuram, 2005, p. 124. Vide Elements of Hindu Iconography Vol. II, p. 98-99. Vide Supra., pp. 55-56. dhatuvarnadibhirlekhyam patadau taccalacalam | (Silparatna, Uttarabhaga, II, 12) The word Bera means Pratima or Vigraha. 28. dhruvam tu gramaraksarthamarcanartham tu kautukam / 29. 30. 31. snanartham snapanam proktam balyartham baliberakam // utsarvam cotsarvartham ca pancaberah prakalpitah // Passage from Vaikhanasagama quoted in Elements of Hindu Iconography, Vol. I, Part I, p. 17. purvoktam lingamavyaktam pratima vyaktamucyate / (Saivagamanibandhana, XV, 41) For more details, vide Elements of Hindu Iconography, Part I, Vol. I, p. 48. Ibid. 32. Elements of Hindu Iconography, Vol. II, p. 76. 33. Quoted in Studies in Hindu Iconography, Vol. II, p. 37. 34. A Handbook of Kerala, Vol I, Ed. T. Madhava Menon, International School of Dravidian Linguistics, Thiruvananthapuram, 2002, p. 249. *** 112

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