The Sanskrit term Pauṣkaratantra can be transliterated into English as Pauskaratantra or Paushkaratantra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Vastushastra (architecture)

Source: archive.org: Bharatiya vastu-sastra

Pauṣkaratantra (पौष्करतन्त्र) or simply Pauṣkara is the name of a Tantra authored by Vibhava: an ancient teacher (ācārya) of Vāstuśāsta (science of architecture) according to the Vibhava.—All these great teachers cannot be said to be legendary. Some used to be propagated in ancient India. No nation can flourish without its care for its material prosperity. All this technique and training and their systematic and successful teaching and transmission were of equal importance. Most of the treatises of Vāstuśāstra carry many of these names [i.e., Puṣkara—Pauṣkaratantra], yet a good many of them are quoted as authorities, yet still others are honoured with actual passages being quoted from their works.

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Pauṣkaratantra (पौष्करतन्त्र) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Quoted in the Śaivadarśana of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha Oxf. 247^a.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pauṣkaratantra (पौष्करतन्त्र):—[=pauṣkara-tantra] [from pauṣkara] n. Name of [work]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Paushkara, Tantra.

Full-text: Paushkara, Pushkara.

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Vastu-shastra (1): Canons of Architecture (by D. N. Shukla)

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