12-12-2005, 01:13 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Mitra+Dec 11 2005, 12:29 PM-->QUOTE(Mitra @ Dec 11 2005, 12:29 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->HH have you ever heard of a book called "Samarangana Sutradharam"?
I was looking for some info on that.
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The samarangaNa-sUtradhara is an encylopaedic work of the great paramAra Rajput bhoja-rAja. Its main focus is on vAtsu shAstra that is construction of buildings, temples, idols of deities and mechanical devices including a so called flying machine or glider. It is composed largely in the anuShTubh meter and in about 83 chapters. I believe it is an important text that has hardly received the attention it should, especially as a text of Hindu civil engineering. I have refered to the following devanagari edition of the book by Shri Ganapati Shastri:
Samarangana-sutradhara of Maharajadhiraja Bhoja, the Parmara Ruler of Dhara. Originally edited by Mahamahopadhyaya T. Ganapatisastri. Revised and edited by Vasudeva Saran Agrawala. (Gaekwadâs Oriental Series. 25.) Baroda (Oriental Institute), 1966
I was looking for some info on that.
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The samarangaNa-sUtradhara is an encylopaedic work of the great paramAra Rajput bhoja-rAja. Its main focus is on vAtsu shAstra that is construction of buildings, temples, idols of deities and mechanical devices including a so called flying machine or glider. It is composed largely in the anuShTubh meter and in about 83 chapters. I believe it is an important text that has hardly received the attention it should, especially as a text of Hindu civil engineering. I have refered to the following devanagari edition of the book by Shri Ganapati Shastri:
Samarangana-sutradhara of Maharajadhiraja Bhoja, the Parmara Ruler of Dhara. Originally edited by Mahamahopadhyaya T. Ganapatisastri. Revised and edited by Vasudeva Saran Agrawala. (Gaekwadâs Oriental Series. 25.) Baroda (Oriental Institute), 1966