Product Code :CSG 433
Author : Shailaja Pandey
ISBN : 9789380326603
Bound : Hard Cover
Publishing Date : 2013
Publisher : Chaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan
Pages : 710
Language : Sanskrit Text with Hindi Translation
Availability : 87
The Mayamata is a Vastusastra, i.e. a treatise on dwelling and as such it deals with all the facets of gods and mens dwellings, from the choice of the site to the iconography of the temple walls. It contains numerous and precise descriptions of villages and towns as well as of the temples, houses, mansions and palaces. It gives indications for the selection of a proper orientation, right dimensions, and of appropriate materials. It intends to be a manual for the architect and a guidebook for the layman. Well-thought of by traditional architects (sthapatis) of South India, the treatise is of great interest at a time when technical traditions, in all fields, are being scrutinized for their possible modern application.