Essay name: Arts in the Puranas (study)
Author:
Meena Devadatta Jeste
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Pune
This essay studies the Arts in the Puranas by reconstructing the theory of six major fine arts—Music, Dance, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Literature—from the Major and Minor Puranas. This thesis shows how ancient sages studied these arts within the context of cultural traditions of ancient India.
Chapter 4 - Sculpture in the Puranas
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- 238 - NOTES 1 J.N. Banergea, 'The Development of Hindu Iconography', p. 2. 23 J. N. Banergea, op. cit., ch. I, pp. 7 - 23, chs. IV and
V, pp. 108 202.
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T. A.G. Rao,'Elements of Hindu Iconography', Vol. I and II.
23.
J.N.Banergea, op. cit., pp. 22 - 23
3 4
5 VDP. III. 43. 31 - 32.
6 यथा चित्र तथैवान्तं खातपूर्व नराधिप ।
सुवर्णरूप्यताप्रादि तब्ब] लोकेषु दर्शयेत् ॥
शिलादारुषु लोहेषु प्रतिमाकरणं भवेत् ।
अनेनैव विधानेन यथा चित्रमुदाहृतम् ॥
[yathā citra tathaivāntaṃ khātapūrva narādhipa |
suvarṇarūpyatāprādi tabba] lokeṣu darśayet ||
śilādāruṣu loheṣu pratimākaraṇaṃ bhavet |
anenaiva vidhānena yathā citramudāhṛtam ||
] VDP. III. 39. 49 - 50.
अपादसमस्थानं द्वितीयेन तु विद्गलम् ।
शरीरं च सलीलं स्यात्सामै व्यचिदृतम् ॥
लीलाविलासविनान्तं विशाल जघनस्थलम् ।
स्थिरैकपादविन्यास स्त्रीरूपं विलिखेदुधः ॥
[apādasamasthānaṃ dvitīyena tu vidgalam |
śarīraṃ ca salīlaṃ syātsāmai vyacidṛtam ||
līlāvilāsavināntaṃ viśāla jaghanasthalam |
sthiraikapādavinyāsa strīrūpaṃ vilikhedudhaḥ ||
] 7 NS. XII. 163 - 164.
8 Kapila Vatsyayana, ' Classical Indian Dance in Literature
and the Arts', p. 373.
9 Kapila Vatsyayana, op. cit., pp. 302 - 379.
10 A.P., 43. 9a - 10b.
मृण्मयी दारूघटिता कोन्हा रत्नना तथा ।
झेलना गन्धना चैव कौमी सप्तधा स्मृता
[mṛṇmayī dārūghaṭitā konhā ratnanā tathā |
jhelanā gandhanā caiva kaumī saptadhā smṛtā
] 11 A.P., 44.
A.P., 44. 1-3.
M.P., 261. 18-19.
12 13
M.P., 257. 19.
स्वातं स्याद्वादशीलम् ।
मुखमानेन कर्तव्या सर्वावयवकल्पना
[svātaṃ syādvādaśīlam |
mukhamānena kartavyā sarvāvayavakalpanā
]
