Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes The Vartika and the backgrounds (Bhumibandha) which is chapter 80 English summary of the Samarangana-Sutradhara by Bhoja. This work in Sanskrit representing a voluminous treatise on Vastu-Shastra (the science of Architecture), encompassing a broad range of subjects, such as Architecture, Shilpa-shastra (Iconography, Arts and Crafts) but also deals with Creation-theory, Geography, Philosophu, etc.
Chapter 80 - The Vartikā and the backgrounds (Bhūmibandha)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to the chapter 72 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
First are enumerated the places from where clay to be used in Vartikā may be procured. Then follow the details of the procedure of moulding it into a ball in which a quantity of cooked rice is to be mixed according to the time of seasons. Then arc given its respective dimensions for the respective uses i.e. whether it is used in apprenticeship or in the finished delineations.
Then follows the process of the preparations of all the three types of background according to the three types of painting, namely the mural, the board and the cloth (Kuḍyabhūmi-bandhana, Paṭṭabhūmi-bandhana and the Paṭabhūmi-bandhana). For details see the Study (Vol. II).