Murtidhyana, Murti-dhyana, Mūrtidhyāna: 4 definitions
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In Hinduism
Vastushastra (architecture)
Source: McGill: The architectural theory of the MānasāraMūrtidhyāna (मूर्तिध्यान).—The theme of meditation is even more persuasive in iconography. In the chapters on iconography (Mānasāra LI-LXIII), the text gives vivid descriptions of characteristic features of the various deities. These iconic representations, divinely revealed to sages of the hoary antiquity, are not to be subjected to artistic caprice: hence the text qualifies the “imagination” of the iconographer as mūrtidhyāna, “meditation of the form of the deity”.
These iconologic details together with the system of proportional measurement that constitute tālamāna comprise the śāstra, “rules or theory”, of iconography. However, iconographers orten made use of the visions of saints (recorded in their hymnal compositions, which also are part of the body of Śaiva sacred scripture) as dhyānaśloka, “meditational verses”, reciting and interiorizing them while sculpting the image.
The final iconographic operation is chiseling the eyes of the image. The chiseling is also conducted in a pious, meditative mode as opening the eyes of the deity, thus completing its manifestation.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Mūrtidhyāna (मूर्तिध्यान) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—sculpture. Burnell. 62^b.
2) Mūrtidhyāna (मूर्तिध्यान):—meditation on the form of Kṛṣṇa. Taylor. 1, 357.
3) Mūrtidhyāna (मूर्तिध्यान):—meditation on the form of Kṛṣṇa. Gov. Or. Libr. Madras 70.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMūrtidhyāna (मूर्तिध्यान):—[=mūrti-dhyāna] [from mūrti > mūrch] n. Name of two works.
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