Samarangana Sutradhara of Bhojadeva (Record no. 47662)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788171103027
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International Standard Book Number 8171103022
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 720.01 BHO
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Personal name Sharma,Sudarshan Kumar
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Samarangana Sutradhara of Bhojadeva
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Edition statement 3
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Pirmal Publications
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2023
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 567,
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Śri Bhojadeva was first and foremost a man of great learning, a versatile scholar, a polymath indeed, for he has been credited with works in almost every branch of knowledge. According to Ājada who wrote a commentary named Padakaprakāśa on Sarasvati Kanthābharaņa, Bhoja wrote 84 works giving them names with his own titles and binds.<br/><br/>Of the various works ascribed to him, Samarängana Sütradhāra is a voluminous treatise, an architectural masterpiece, dealing with technical subjects such as town planning, house architecture, temple architecture and sculptural subjects like Pratimä Lakşaņa, Iconography, Iconometry, Iconoplastic art together with Mudras, the different hand poses and the poses of the body as well as the postures of legs. It deals with the canons of painting and devotes a big chapter to the art of mechanical contrivances, the yantras.<br/><br/>Samarangaņa Sütradhara is in eighty three chapters with chapter thirty one specialising in the mechanical contrivances and yantras, having verses 95-100 dealing with the construction of bird shaped aerial cars and verses 101-107 dealing with the Robots meant to act as guards.<br/><br/>This is the first time that an English translation of this great architectural work has been attempted with various annotations and the complete original Sanskrit text. This is definitely a landmark in the field of ancient Indian architecture.<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Architecture India
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Hindu Architecture
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Personal name Sharma,Sudarshan Kumar
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