Shiva-Parvati (Iconography)
author: Thomas Eugene Donaldson
edition: 2007, D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 1201
ISBN-10: 8124603596
ISBN-13: 9788124603598
Topic: Shilpashastra
Seated/Standing
This chapter describes Seated/Standing located on page 303 in the book Shiva-Parvati and Allied Images (Their Iconography and Body Language). This book deals with the study of sculptures of Shiva-Parvati and other images such as the Murtis of Anugraha, Umamaheshvara and Umasahita as well as the mythological background of the deities represents by those sculptures. The two volumes contain over 700 images dedicated to the study of postures and body language of various sculptures, the sculptor’s technique.. This chapter is part of the collection Iconography and Images of Umasahita/alingana-murti.
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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi [by Ganganatha Jha]
—the Text answers:—When the Teacher gives his directions seated, then the pupil should rise from his seat, and do the ‘listening and conversing’ while standing. ‘Advancing towards him, when he is standing’;—when the Teacher gives his orders standing, the pupil should advance towards him a few steps. ‘Going forward to him, when he advances’;—i.e., going up to the teacher. The prefix ‘prati’ has the sense of being face to face. ‘When he runs’—moves with force; he should run behind him....
Read full contents: Verse 2.196
The Padma Purana [by N.A. Deshpande]
Vishvavasu saw there the lord of gods resorted to by all hosts of gods, seated on an excellent seat, O king. O king, near the seat of Brahma he saw Indraprastha, as if it was another lord of the world, seated on an excellent seat. 5-8. He saw the lord of gods and the chief of holy places waving chowries on the heads of Brahmaprastha and Indraprastha, O king. O king, he also saw there other divine holy places, standing with the palms of their hands joined in obeisance, at a distance from the two....
Read full contents: Chapter 220 - The Greatness of Prayaga: Mohini’s Story
Sushruta Samhita, Volume 6: Uttara-tantra [by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna]
If the seat of this disease considerably remote from the pupil—entire part of the Drishti (Retina) be marked by the absence of pain and discharge and be not deep-seated and if there be not double spots, it offers very little chance of remedy. 3-4....
Read full contents: Chapter V - Pathology of the diseases of the black part of the eye
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[Shiva-Parvati (Iconography): index]
[About the Author (Thomas Eugene Donaldson)]
[Introduction]