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[ 18 ] arts on which each work treated, or of the authors of the treatises themselves, the renowned Rishis or holy men, who are said to have flourished in the earlier ages." The South Indian Āgamas are extensive works and deal mostly with Śiva. There are twenty-eight recognized Āgamas.⁵² Some of them incidentally deal with architectural subjects, in great 52 a. For the South Indian Śaivāgamas see :—H. W. Schomerus : Der Caiva-Siddhānta eine mystik Indiens. Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1912. Pp. 7ff. Einleitung : 2. Die Caivāgama, die Haupt- autorität des Caiva-Siddhānta (a) Der Ursprung and das Alter der Āgama (b) Die Gruppierung der Āgama and ihr Umfang ; J. M. Nallaswāmi Pillai ; Śivajñāna Siddhiyār of Arunandi Śivāchārya. Madras, Meykandan Press, 1913. Pp. lii—lv. List of Āgamas or Tantra with Upāgamas. 52 b. "Some of the Āgamas deal with very technical matters, which are not met with in the Purāṇas. Moreover, some Āgamas, to all intents and purposes, are but architectural treatises. The Kāmikāgama, for instance, devotes sixty chapters out of a total of seventy-five to architecture and sculpture, and its treatment of the subjects can hardly be surpassed by that of an avowedly architectural treatise". "The Kāraṇāgama also devotes much space to architecture and sculp- ture. There are thirty-seven chapters in the Āgama, which deal with these subjects exhaustively. It makes a distinct addition to the Āgamas' contribu- tions to the Śilpa-śāstras. It contributes two valuable chapters dealing with the details of the nine and ten tāla measures. This is also a highly techni- cal matter concerning sculpture and entirely missing in the Purāṇas". "The Suprabhedāgama has devoted only fifteen chapters to architecture and sculpture. Nor has it anything new to add to the Āgamas' contribu- tions to the Śilpa-śāstras. But its unique nature consists in the fact that it has quite successfully summarised all important matters in a comparatively small space, and in respect of brevity, explicitness and precision it surpasses even the Bṛhat-saṃhitā of Varāhamihira." "The Vaikhānasāgama has two chapters on sculpture, one of which deals with the general description of images and the other with the ten tāla measures. The Aṁśumad-bhedāgama has a single chapter on the ten tāla measures." P. K. Acharya : Ind. Architecture according to the Mānaṣāra, pp. 23—28 The Āgamas.