Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes The Gods and Goddesses and their forms and Mudras (weapons etc.) which is chapter 72 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 72 - The Gods and Goddesses and their forms and Mudrās (weapons etc.)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 77 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
[Full title: The Gods and Goddesses and their forms and Mudrās (weapons etc.), (devādi-rūpa-praharaṇa-saṃyoga-lakṣaṇa)]
The chapter is fully studied line by line in the study proper—vide Vol 11. Here it is enough to indicate that out of a very large number of gods and goddesses only a representative selection has been made by the author of the Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra. Accordingly Brahmā, Śiva, Kārtikeya, Balabhadra and Viṣṇu among the famous gods and Lakṣmī and Kauśikī among the goddesses together with the Aśvins and some of the Dikpālas like Indra and Yama as well as Piśācas, Gandharvas etc. etc. have been described.