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As available now, the book has 70 chapters and 10,000 lines in Sanskrit. It goes into great detail about all aspects of architecture, townplanning and icono¬graphy, including casting of images in metals. Sixteen types of village and town plans are described. | As available now, the book has 70 chapters and 10,000 lines in Sanskrit. It goes into great detail about all aspects of architecture, townplanning and icono¬graphy, including casting of images in metals. Sixteen types of village and town plans are described. | ||
Revision as of 09:48, 2 July 2015
By Swami Harshananda
Sometimes transliterated as: Manasara, MAnasAra, Maanasaara
Mānasāra
Architecture, town planning, building construction, iconography and allied topics were well-known to the people right from the most ancient times. The epics and the purāṇas contain innumerable references to the same. One of the most standard works containing a well-organised body of this knowledge also called as Śilpaśāstra is the Mānasāra of an unknown author.
As available now, the book has 70 chapters and 10,000 lines in Sanskrit. It goes into great detail about all aspects of architecture, townplanning and icono¬graphy, including casting of images in metals. Sixteen types of village and town plans are described.
The original work might have been composed during the Gupta period (A. D. 320-525). The extant (redacted version) work probably belongs to 11th to 15th centuries.
References
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore
