Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes The Query (Prashna-adhyaya) which is chapter 3 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 3 - The Query (Praśna-adhyāya)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 3 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
Father’s assignment of the respective duties to the sons is done. Now it is the turn of the sons to make query about the details of this great task and hence it is after the query that the chapter is named Praśnodhyāya. The questions are simply great and worthy of the great sons of the great Architect. All the cosmological, physical, geographical, astronomical questions together with their bearing on architectural subjects having so many ramifications themselves are put to the father by the eldest son Jaya. In these questions from the mouth of Jaya, the author has indicated the full scope of the Vāstu-vidyā, a detailed notice of which has already been taken in the Study (Part I Chapter II).