रूपमण्डन एवं देवमूर्त्ति-प्रकरणम् (मण्डन सूत्रधार - प्राचीन मूर्तिकला एवं देव-प्रतिमा लक्षण सटीक)

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the Saṅgīta-mīmāṁsā and the Saṅgīta-rāja. He also wrote the
Pāṭhyaratnakośa³. Mahārāṇa Kumbha is said to have constructed
the celebrated Tower of Victory at Chitore⁴.
It, therefore, stands to reason that Mahārāṇā Kumbhakarṇa
should be a patron of architects and sculptors, just like King
Bhoja of Dhārā धारानगरीपति-महाराजाधिराज श्रीभोजदेव (11th C.) who
compiled the Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra⁵, a work on architecture and
'to whom are ascribed many other important works, such as, the
Śṛṅgāraprakāśa (Alaṅkāra) and the Sarasvatī-kaṇṭhābharaṇa;
or like Someśvaradeva, the Cālukya King ( 12th C. ),
the author (or the patron of the scholar) who compiled the
encyclopædic work—the Mānasollāsa or the Abhilaṣitārtha-
cintāmaṇi⁶.
Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana or simply Maṇḍana seems to have been
a prolific writer of treatises on architecture and sculpture. The

3. See T. Aufrecht : Catalogus Catalogorum Vol. I, p. 111 ff.
   (a). K—(F. Kielhorn : A Catalogue of Sanskrit Mss. existing in the
   Central Provinces.) 96.
   (b). P—(F. Kielhorn : Lists of the Sanskrit manuscripts purchased
   for government during the years 1877-78 & 1869-78, and a list of the manus-
   cripts purchased from May to November 1881) 15.
4. Some scholars have doubts regarding the original purpose of the
   structure, namely, if it was really a tower raised to commemorate a victory
   at all. See D. R. Bhandarkar : The Kīrttistambha of Mahārāṇā Kumbha.
   Journal of the Indian Soc. of Oriental Art. Cal., Vol. I, 1.
   Regarding this magnificent structure, Fergusson says :—
   "It has no plain parts, this mass of decoration is so subdued that it in
   no way interferes either with the outline or the general effect of the pillar.
   ...It is infinitely better taste than the victory pillar of Trajan."
5. Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra, edited by Mahāmahopādhyāya T.
   Gaṇapati Śāstrī. GOS. XXV & XXXII, 2 Vols. (1924, 25), Baroda.
6. Mānasollāsa, edited by G. K. Shrigondekar. GOS. XXVIII ff,
   2 Vols (1925 ff); Abhilaṣitārthacintāmaṇi, edited by Dr. R. Shama Sastry.
   MSS. 60. (1926), Mysore.