Shilpa Shastras

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Shilpa Shastras (Sanskrit: Śilpa Śāstras) are traditional Hindu texts that describe the standards for religious Hindu iconography, prescribing e.g. the proportions of a sculptured figure, as well as rules of Hindu architecture.[1] They form one of 64 branches of divinely revealed arts.

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[edit] Editions

  • Brihat Shilpa Shastra, Ahmedabad (1931).
  • Alice Boner (trans.), Shilpa Prakasha, Brill, Leyden (1966).
  • Shilpa Shastra Manasara, Baroda (1925).
  • Shilpa Shastra, Lahore (1928)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ For Śilpa Śāstras as basis for iconographic standards, see: Hopkins, p. 113.

[edit] References

  • Hopkins, Thomas J. (1971). The Hindu Religious Tradition. Belmont, California: Dickenson Publishing Company. 
  • P. K. Acharya, Indian Architecture according to the Manasara Shilpa Shastra, London (1927).
  • Amita Sinha, Design of Settlements in the Vaastu Shastras, Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 17, 1998

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