रूपमण्डन एवं देवमूर्त्ति-प्रकरणम् (मण्डन सूत्रधार - प्राचीन मूर्तिकला एवं देव-प्रतिमा लक्षण सटीक)
रूपमण्डन एवं देवमूर्त्ति-प्रकरणम् (मण्डन सूत्रधार - प्राचीन मूर्तिकला एवं देव-प्रतिमा लक्षण सटीक)
Rupamandanam and Devatamurti Prakaranam of Sutradhara Mandana
मण्डन सूत्रधार द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished335 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 14, कुल 335 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 14
- SOURCES OF THE
DEVATĀMŪRTI-PRAKARAṆAM.
For compiling his DmP. Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana seems either
to have chiefly utilised the South Indian texts, or to have actually
based his work on them.
Indeed his DmP. is more S. Indian than N. Indian in
character. This would at once show that, most probably, the
art of temple-architecture was already slowly dying in the North
India, while in the South it lived with virility.
Naturally, for preparing his DmP. Maṇḍana turned chiefly
to South Indian sources. Another striking peculiarity is that he
never utilised, as far as is evident, the Tamil Śaiva or Vaiṣṇava
Āgamas. But he made copious use of the Śilparatnam¹⁶ and
the Mayamatam¹⁷ both probably from original Malayalam sources.
For some reasons, not evident, the S. Indian Āgamas
were not accessible to Maṇḍana. Either Skt. texts in the Tamil
script, often with copious glosses in vernacular, were not intelligible
to Maṇḍana ; or the lines of communication between Rajputana
and the Tamil lands were beset with obstacles. The latter
eventuality is all the more plausible, when we take into account,
the unsettled political conditions of the times.
Repeated invasions and onslaughts of the fierce Turks and
Mongols interrupted the normal course of events in Northern,
Eastern and Central India. And, the warriors' swords were more
in requisition then than the painters' brushes or the stone-masons'
lines and pellets.
- Śilparatnam of Śrīkumāra. Part I. Edited by Mm. T. Gaṇapati
Śāstrī, 1922 ; Ditto. Part II. Edited by K. Sāmbaśiva Śāstrī, 1929. - Mayamatam of Mayamuni. Edited by Mm. T. Gaṇapati Śāstrī,