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The Manjusribhasita-Vastuvidyasastra (also called Citrakarmasastra) is the only Sanskrit silpa text of its kind that has so far been found anywhere in India or Sri Lanka. Discovered some thirty years ago in a Buddhist temple in central Sri Lanka, the work exclusively deals with ancient Buddhist monastic architecture and the art of modeling clay images of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and others, monastery. The work which the editor assigns to the period between the 5th ...
The Citrakarmasastra covers the second half of the ancient Sanskrit silpa text Vastuvidyasastra devoted to Mahayanic monastic architecture and the art of image-modeling. The first half of the text dealing with monastic architecture was published with an introduction and an Englishtranslation in 1989 by Sri Satguru Publications as No. 67 of their Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series. The present volume presents a very methodical treatment of the subjects of Buddhist ...
The Bimbamana (popularly called Sariputra), an eleventh century Sanskrit silpa text on Buddhist iconometry, provides the most detailed treatment of the uttam-dasa-tala system pertaining to standing, sedent and recumbent Buddha images. All the available palmleaf manuscript copies of this work (numbering over fifteen) are from Sri Lanka which is most probably the country of its origin. Unlike the Manjusribhasita-vastuvidyasastra, another Sri Lankan silpa text which ...
This is the most comprehensive study done in recent years on the stagecraft on the ancient Indian theatre. Admirably written with a living theatre in mind, the work in its fourteen chapters unfolds the mysteries of Sanskrit theater production with particular emphasis on the playhouse, the role of the curtain, the dramatic preliminaries, the employment of music, character-types, historic art, theatrical techniques and extraneous representation, all of which have ...