Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes The Dialogue Between Father and Sons—(Vishvakarma Putra-Samvada) which is chapter 2 English summary of the Samarangana-Sutradhara by Bhoja. This work in Sanskrit representing a voluminous treatise on Vastu-Shastra (the science of Architecture), encompassing a broad range of subjects, such as Architecture, Shilpa-shastra (Iconography, Arts and Crafts) but also deals with Creation-theory, Geography, Philosophu, etc.
Chapter 2 - The Dialogue Between Father and Sons—(Viśvakarmā Putra-Saṃvāda)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 2 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
Viśvakarmā now remembers all his four Mānasa sons, Jaya, Vijaya, Siddhartha and Aparājita to be his comrades in this great task of the Planning. He, therefore, distributed the planning of the human habitation—the towns, Kheṭas (small towns), villages, houses, public places, the gardens etc. together with the forts in between the mountains and rivers for security reasons, on all the four quarters of the Earth to his sons to each one quarter, and himself reserved the planning of the capital of the Universal monarch, the king Pṛthu.