रूपमण्डन एवं देवमूर्त्ति-प्रकरणम् (मण्डन सूत्रधार - प्राचीन मूर्तिकला एवं देव-प्रतिमा लक्षण सटीक)

( 3 ) following is a list of works⁷ ascribed to him, and some of them are styled differently in Mss. Devatāmūrti-prakaraṇa⁸. Vāstuśāstra. Prāsādamaṇḍana. Vāstu-sāra. Rājavallabha Vāstuśāstra⁹. Vāstu-mañjari. Rūpamaṇḍana. Āpa-tattva. Vāstumaṇḍana. Maṇḍana's treatise on architecture bears the titles— ‘Śilpa-śāstra’, ‘Vāstu-śāstra’, and also ‘Prāsāda-maṇḍana- Vāstu-śāstra’.¹⁰ According to some scholars, it is possibly further called the ‘Rājavallabha-maṇḍana’ (or simply ‘Rājavallabha’) or the ‘Sūtradhāra-maṇḍana’¹¹. In the unique library¹² of the Sarvavidyānidhāna Kavīndrācārya (17th C.) were stored some Mss. on art (architecture and sculpture), among which the following are worth noting— शिल्पशास्त्रप्रकरण—2146 राजवल्लभ, 2849 वास्तुमण्डन, 2150 प्रासादमण्डन, 2151 रूपमण्डन, 2152 राजवल्लभशिल्प, 2153 वास्तुशास्त्रशिल्प. This book- lover Kavīndrācārya was a Deccan Brahmin and a very learned man, the head of the Pandit community of Benares, of his time,

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7. See T. Aufrecht : Catalogus Catalogorum Vol. I, pp. 730-31. Also, Prasanna Kumar Acharya : Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra-Śilpaśāstra. Oxford Univ. Pr., 1927. pp. 103-5.
8. First noticed by G. Bühler : Two Lists of Sanskrit Mss. in Z. D. M. G. Vol. 42, 538.
9. See Note 1 Supra. Edited by Paṇḍit Rāmayatna Ojhā, Hindu Univ.
10. J. Eggeling and E. Windisch : Catalogue of Sanskrit mss. in the Library of the India Office. 3142, 1291 ; 3147, 2253.
11. P. K. Acharya : Op. cit., p. 102.
12. कवीन्द्राचार्यसूचीपत्रम् Kavīndrāchārya list. Edited with Introduction by R. Anantakrishna Sastry with a Foreword by Dr. Ganganatha Jha. GOS. No. XVII, 1921. ( सूची ) सर्वविद्यानिधानकवीन्द्राचार्यसरस्वतीनाम् ( ग्रन्थसंग्रहस्य ) वेदान्तौकी बाग —वरूषीतट—बनारस।