Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes The Assembly Hall (Sabha) which is chapter 28 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 28 - The Assembly Hall (Sabhā)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 27 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
Sabhā here means a public hall or a council-chamber. The special features of the Sabha in Vedic times were their pillars and fire-altars. This characteristic of pillars is retained in the planning of Sabha in the Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra. Nandā, Bhadrā, Jayā, Pūrṇā, Bhāvitā, Dakṣā, Pravarā and Vidurā—these are the eight varieties of the Sabhā, special features of the first five varieties is the excessive application of the pillars as many as thirty-six in each of them, together with terraces, all round. The sixth, seventh and eighth varieties however, it seems that apart from the architectural details, may have corridors also.