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arts on which each work treated, or of the authors of the treatises
themselves, the renowned Rishis or holy men, who are said to
have flourished in the earlier ages."
The South Indian Āgamas are extensive works and deal
mostly with Śiva. There are twenty-eight recognized Āgamas.⁵²
Some of them incidentally deal with architectural subjects, in great
52 a. For the South Indian Śaivāgamas see :—H. W. Schomerus :
Der Caiva-Siddhānta eine mystik Indiens. Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs'sche
Buchhandlung, 1912. Pp. 7ff. Einleitung : 2. Die Caivāgama, die Haupt-
autorität des Caiva-Siddhānta (a) Der Ursprung and das Alter der Āgama
(b) Die Gruppierung der Āgama and ihr Umfang ; J. M. Nallaswāmi Pillai ;
Śivajñāna Siddhiyār of Arunandi Śivāchārya. Madras, Meykandan Press,
1913. Pp. lii—lv. List of Āgamas or Tantra with Upāgamas.
52 b. "Some of the Āgamas deal with very technical matters, which
are not met with in the Purāṇas. Moreover, some Āgamas, to all intents and
purposes, are but architectural treatises. The Kāmikāgama, for instance,
devotes sixty chapters out of a total of seventy-five to architecture and
sculpture, and its treatment of the subjects can hardly be surpassed by that
of an avowedly architectural treatise".
"The Kāraṇāgama also devotes much space to architecture and sculp-
ture. There are thirty-seven chapters in the Āgama, which deal with these
subjects exhaustively. It makes a distinct addition to the Āgamas' contribu-
tions to the Śilpa-śāstras. It contributes two valuable chapters dealing with
the details of the nine and ten tāla measures. This is also a highly techni-
cal matter concerning sculpture and entirely missing in the Purāṇas".
"The Suprabhedāgama has devoted only fifteen chapters to architecture
and sculpture. Nor has it anything new to add to the Āgamas' contribu-
tions to the Śilpa-śāstras. But its unique nature consists in the fact that
it has quite successfully summarised all important matters in a comparatively
small space, and in respect of brevity, explicitness and precision it surpasses
even the Bṛhat-saṃhitā of Varāhamihira."
"The Vaikhānasāgama has two chapters on sculpture, one of which
deals with the general description of images and the other with the ten
tāla measures. The Aṁśumad-bhedāgama has a single chapter on the ten
tāla measures."
P. K. Acharya : Ind. Architecture according to the Mānaṣāra,
pp. 23—28 The Āgamas.