Saudhikagama, Saudhikāgama, Saudhika-agama: 1 definition

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Shilpashastra (iconography)

Source: Google Books: Papers on Art and Epigraphy

Saudhikāgama (सौधिकागम) is an unpublished Sanskrit text of encyclopaedic nature on Orissan temple architecture, town planning and iconography comprising about 4457 verses divided into nine chapters.—[Cf. Saudhika]—The Saudhikāgama is quoted for the first time in the Śilpa Prakāśa, a medieval text on Orissan Temple architecture. It is currently available only in two palm-leaf manuscripts in Oriya script, one from Purulia and the other from Dharakot. The author of the Śilpa Prakāśa, Rāmacandra Mahāpātra Kaula Bhaṭṭāraka, who lived in a Tantric village and was a follower of Kaulācāra doctrine, mentions Saudhikāgama frequently and explicitly as an authority and the main source of his knowledge. This text appears to have been in his time a generally acknowledged authority in the matters of Tantric architecture and allied arts.

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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.

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