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The Silpa Prakasa is an important addition to the existing literature on Indian silpa texts." (V.S. Agrawala). This early text on Orissan Temple architecture (possibly from the 10 cent. A.D.) describes various temple types of Orissa, but especially a tantric temple termed Vimanamalini with its sub-types Padmagarbha and Kamagarbha. The latter could be identified with the 10 cent. Varahi Temple at Caurasi near Konarak. The text goes into great detail of the ...
The Vastusutra Upanisad, ascribed to Rsi Pippalada of Prasna Upanisad, is the first-known Atharvavedic text on image-making. The book contains a critical edition of the text, an English translation and copious notes elucidating its meaning. Chapters are devoted to a discussion of the following subjects: stones, compositional diagram, carving, disposition of the parts of the image, the basic emotions connected with images, and the total composition of the image ...
The present work represents an approach to a hitherto unexplored aspect of Hindu sculpture. It deals with pre-medieval sculpture and, leaving aside the historical, the doctrinal and the aesthetic aspects of this art, it concentrates exclusively on the question of composition. The principles of composition which are here discussed and defined, have resulted from a careful analysis, carried on for a number of years, of the great sculptures of the Rock-Temples at ...