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Rupamandanam and Devatamurti Prakaranam of Sutradhara Mandana

मण्डन सूत्रधार द्वारा

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पृष्ठ 14, कुल 335 में से

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  1. SOURCES OF THE DEVATĀMŪRTI-PRAKARAṆAM. For compiling his DmP. Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana seems either to have chiefly utilised the South Indian texts, or to have actually based his work on them. Indeed his DmP. is more S. Indian than N. Indian in character. This would at once show that, most probably, the art of temple-architecture was already slowly dying in the North India, while in the South it lived with virility. Naturally, for preparing his DmP. Maṇḍana turned chiefly to South Indian sources. Another striking peculiarity is that he never utilised, as far as is evident, the Tamil Śaiva or Vaiṣṇava Āgamas. But he made copious use of the Śilparatnam¹⁶ and the Mayamatam¹⁷ both probably from original Malayalam sources. For some reasons, not evident, the S. Indian Āgamas were not accessible to Maṇḍana. Either Skt. texts in the Tamil script, often with copious glosses in vernacular, were not intelligible to Maṇḍana ; or the lines of communication between Rajputana and the Tamil lands were beset with obstacles. The latter eventuality is all the more plausible, when we take into account, the unsettled political conditions of the times. Repeated invasions and onslaughts of the fierce Turks and Mongols interrupted the normal course of events in Northern, Eastern and Central India. And, the warriors' swords were more in requisition then than the painters' brushes or the stone-masons' lines and pellets.
  1. Śilparatnam of Śrīkumāra. Part I. Edited by Mm. T. Gaṇapati Śāstrī, 1922 ; Ditto. Part II. Edited by K. Sāmbaśiva Śāstrī, 1929.
  2. Mayamatam of Mayamuni. Edited by Mm. T. Gaṇapati Śāstrī,