समराङ्गणसूत्रधार (महाराज भोज - वास्तु, स्थापत्य एवं यंत्र शास्त्र)

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commentary in a subsequent volume will be found useful by students of Indian
art and architecture. For the sake of convenience the two separate volumes of
the first edition have now been brought together with continuous pagination
which will facilitate consultation and reference to the text. It may also be observ-
ed that after the publication of the Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra in its first edition of
1924-25 several new important texts of Indian Śilpa Sāstra have come to light
amongst which the Aparājita Pṛcchā (G. O. S. Vol. 115) is the most important.
Although there are many elements common to these two big Śilpa works, the
Samarāṅagaṇa Sūtradhāra represents the architectural facts of the Malava school
and the Aparājita Pṛcchā those of the Saurashtra school of Western India, of
which the two respective patrons were King Bhoja and Siddhārāja Jaisingh. An
exhaustive comparison of their contents and topics and a comparative study of
terminologies would be found quite revealing of the growth of Indian architec-
tural tradition in two contiguous regions and during about the same period, the
Aparājita Pṛcchā being of course a later compilation than the Samarāṅgaṇa
Sūtradhāra and more diffused in its contents and style.
V. S. AGRAWALA
2 December, 1965