Patalayagapatala, Pātālayāgapaṭala, Patalayaga-patala: 1 definition
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Vastushastra (architecture)
Pātālayāgapaṭala (पातालयागपटल) (lit., “section on the rites at the pit”) is the name of chapter 12 of the Ādikāṇḍa of the Hayaśīrṣasaṃhitā: a large Pāñcarātra Āgama consisting of roughly 6500 verses dealing primarily with architecture, temple-building and consecration rituals and iconography.
Description of the chapter [pātālayāgapaṭala]: Śilādhivāsa-rites being over, the Ācārya faces East and sees to the filling of 9 pots with 5 gems and other auspicious materials (not named in text). The pots are blessed by invoking the presence of gods and placing the pots in the pit, and each of 8 pots is covered with a brick. In the middle (pot?), garbhādhāna is to be done by taking clay from 10 places, roots, gems, grains, metals, etc., and placing them there together (1-19). The measurement of the lotus-shaped garbhādhāna-container used is given (20 ff.), along with precise directions for placing the various materials into it (20-34). Homa having preceded all this, the actual garbhādhāna-ceremony is done at night (50) by removing and then replacing this central container in the pit—the Ācārya meditating all the while on bhūmi (416-49). The pit is then filled with bricks, and a pīṭha-pedestal is constructed atop this filled-in pit. A vāstuyajña is (again) performed all these ceremonies so far constituting one-fourth of the pratiṣṭhā-consecration of the temple (up to 56). This section is summarized by the observation that whosoever does this much gets the same rewards as he who finished a temple altogether (58a). The chapter ends with an eulogy of any who undertake to build (and finish) a temple (58b-62).
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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Partial matches: Patalayaga, Patala.
Full-text: Yagapatala.
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