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Vitruvius means something in the history of ancient India. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Vitruvius is the name of a Roman architect. His treatise, on which, in a sense, all European architecture is based, seems to have been composed 25 years before the Christian era. The Manasara represents an authoritative textbook on ancient Indian architecture.—Certain points of similarity between the Manasara and the treatise of Vitruvius are so striking that they raise a presumption that the two works are in some way connected with each other. Practically seven-tenths of both the works is avowedly architectural. Out of the seventy chapters of the Manasara the first fifty deal with architecture proper, and out of the ten books of Vitruvius the first seven deal with the same subjects. The remaining twenty chapters of the former are devoted to sculpture, and the remaining three books of the latter deal mostly with war instruments, machines, and engines. Of the similar seven-tenths in both the works, the names of many chapters, and the contents, too, in most instances, are the same. The Manasara opens, following the usual custom, with a prayer to the Creator Brahma and touches upon the origin and development of the science of architecture, from Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu, through Indra, Brihaspati, and Narada, to the class of Rishis called Manasara, and concludes the introduction with a list of the chapters. Vitruvius, too, opens with a prayer to his patron, Caesar, and acknowledging his obligations to Caesar’s father and sister, concludes with a proposal to give an account of the magnificent edifices Caesar had built, and to develop all the principles of the art.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
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Architecture, Engineering and Building Science < [Volume 15, Issue 5 (2023)]
Gaetano Vinaccia’s (1881–1971) Theoretical Work on the Relationship between... < [Volume 7, Issue 4, April (2015)]
A Gene for Maintaining Sustainable Cultural Specificity of Contemporary... < [Volume 14, Issue 3 (2022)]
Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad (by Prasanna Kumar Acharya)
Vastu-shastra (Introduction to Indian architecture) (by D. N. Shukla)
(i) Orientation of Buildings (Diṇnirṇaya or Prācī-sādhana) < [Chapter 6 - Fundamental Canons of Hindu Architecture]
Introduction (the five fundamental pillars) < [Chapter 6 - Fundamental Canons of Hindu Architecture]
Manasara (English translation) (by Prasanna Kumar Acharya)
Part 7 - Age of compilation < [Preface]
Part 6 - Relation with other works < [Preface]
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Fresco-Painting in ‘Sivatatvaratnakara’ < [July-August 1932]