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MAYAMATAM
(KMS No. 14-15)

Treatise of Housing, Architecture and Iconography

Edited and Translated by BRUNO DAGENS

2002, 2 Vol., ci+978 pp; line drawings, appen., bibl., index gloss, ISBN: 81-208-1226-3 (set), Rs. 1500 (HB)

The Mayamatam is a vastusastra, i.e. treatise on dwelling and as such it deals with all the facets of gods' and men's dwellings, from the choice of the site to the iconography of the temple walls. It contains numerous and precise descriptions of the villages and towns as well as of the temples, houses, mansions and palaces. It gives indications for the selections of a proper orientation, right dimensions, and appropriate materials. 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.

The present bilingual edition contains critically edited Sanskrit text with an English translation and copious critical and exegetical notes.

BRUNO DAGENS is an eminent Sanskritist and archaeologist. He is a member of Ecole Francais d'Extreme-Orient. He taught Sanskrit at the University of Louvain (Belgium), and did archaeological research in Afghanistan and Combodia. He has also worked at the Institut Francais d'Indologie, Pondicherry. Besides articles and research papers on archaeology and iconography of monuments in Afghanistan and Combodia, two earlier editions of the Mayamata and one edition of the Saivagama-paribhasamanjari, Dr. Dagens has authored Architecture in the Ajitagama and the Rauravagama.



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