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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- 240- यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥ परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे । [yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānirbhavati bhārata | abhyutthānamadharmasya tadātmānaṃ sṛjāmyaham || paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṃ vināśāya duṣkṛtām | dharmasaṃsthāpanārthāya saṃbhavāmi yuge yuge | ] 33 M. P., 47. 104.
ततस्तेनामिनापेन नष्टे धर्मे पुनः पुनः ।
नव हितार्थाय नाते मानु
॥
[tatastenāmināpena naṣṭe dharme punaḥ punaḥ |
nava hitārthāya nāte mānu
||
] J.N.Banergea, op. cit., pp. 415
416.
T.A.G.Rao, op. cit., vol. I, pl. XLIV.
34 35
36 TA.G.Rao, op. cit., vol. I, pl. XLIX.
37 J.N.Banergea, op. cit., p. 420.
38 39
40 V.S.Agrawala, op. cit., p. 256.
T.A.G.Rao, op. cit., vol. I, pl. LXVIII.
A.R, 53, 15 - 16.
41 M.P., 262, 4.
42 V.S.Agrawala, op. cit., p. 257, fig. 177.
43 J.N.Banergea, op. cit., p. 475.
44 J.N.Banergea, op. cit., pl. XL, fig. 3, p. 478.
45 V.S.Agravala, op. cit., p. 259
46 V.S.Agrawal, 'Indian Art', p. 259.
47 T.A.G.Rao, op. cit., vol. II, pls. CXXI-CXXIX.
48 J.N.Banergea, op. cit., p. 379.
49 50
51 Priyabala Shah, 'The Visnudharmottara, III,' vol. II, p.179.
VDP. III. 82. 1.
या माता सर्वलोकस्य पत्नी कि पोर्महात्मनः ।
[yā mātā sarvalokasya patnī ki pormahātmanaḥ |
] J.N.Banerges, op. cit., pl. XVIII, fig. 2, p. 376.
