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Shilpashastra (iconography)

Source: Shodhganga: The significance of the mūla-beras (śilpa)

Dehalabdhāṅgula (देहलब्धाङ्गुल) or simply Dehāṅgula refers to a type of measurement, as defined in the texts dealing with śilpa (arts and crafs), known as śilpaśāstras.—This is obtained by dividing the whole length of the body of an image into 124,120 or 116 equal parts. Each of this division is called a dehalabdhāṅgula or shortly dehāṅgula. The relative measure is used in the construction of temples or in the making of images. Different names are given to certain lengths representable by two or more dehāṅgulas up to twenty-seven.

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Shilpashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, śilpaśāstra) represents the ancient Indian science (shastra) of creative arts (shilpa) such as sculpture, iconography and painting. Closely related to Vastushastra (architecture), they often share the same literature.

Vastushastra (architecture)

Source: OpenEdition books: Architectural terms contained in Ajitāgama and Rauravāgama

Dehalabdhāṅgula (देहलब्धाङ्गुल) refers to “unit of measurement for images § 2.4.”.—(For paragraphs cf. Les enseignements architecturaux de l'Ajitāgama et du Rauravāgama by Bruno Dagens)

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Vastushastra (वास्तुशास्त्र, vāstuśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science (shastra) of architecture (vastu), dealing with topics such architecture, sculpture, town-building, fort building and various other constructions. Vastu also deals with the philosophy of the architectural relation with the cosmic universe.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Dēhalabdhāṃgula (ದೇಹಲಬ್ಧಾಂಗುಲ):—[noun] (a measure equal to one of the equal parts into which the whole height of the statue of a god is divided according to the tāla measures.

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Dēhalabdhāṃguḷa (ದೇಹಲಬ್ಧಾಂಗುಳ):—[noun] = ದೇಹಲಬ್ಧಾಂಗುಲ [dehalabdhamgula].

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Angula.

Full-text: Dehangula, Amsha.

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