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Summary Of Samarangana Sutradhara

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Samarangana Sutradhar: Treatise of Housing Architecture, Machines, Iconography and Dance
Samarangana Sutradhara Originally written in Sanskrit by maharaj dhiraj Shri Bhoj Dev of Dhar; around 11th century, the manuscripts were translated only in the 1920’s to English by s. k. Sharma. Samarangana-Sutradhara is a work on architecture. It means literally, an architect of human dwellings and deals with, the planning of towns and villages, building of houses, halls and palaces as well as machines of various kinds. Book consists of more than 7500 shlokas. Some of the shlokas are written as Palindrome.

“Like other Indian classical literature this book too, starts with mythology. Vishwakarma was the first architect – Sthapati – on earth. Who has four sons. He sends his son on earth to civilize the earth when one of his son asks him questions regarding geology, town planning, house architecture, temple architecture etc. and as an Answer Raja Bhoja writes this book.”
Quoted in http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2013/07/raja-bhojas-samarangana-sutradhara.html

Maharaja dhiraj Shri Bhoj Dev was very well-known for the temples, educational institutions, palaces and other architecture he was responsible for the same during his reign. And this book also comments about medieval town planning, house architecture, temple architecture, sculptural arts, mandalas, mudra, yantras and mahat (panchamahabhuta). Hence this text talks about every aspect of life with subjects ranging from architecture

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