Shilpa Shastras

Shilpa Shastras (Sanskrit: ) are traditional Hindu texts that describe the standards for religious Hindu iconography, prescribing e.g. the proportions of a sculptured figure, as well as rules of Hindu architecture.^[1] They form one of 64 branches of divinely revealed arts.

Editions

• Brihat Shilpa Shastra, Ahmedabad (1931).
• Alice Boner (trans.), Shilpa Prakasha, Brill, Leyden (1966).
• Shilpa Shastra Manasara, Baroda (1925).
• Shilpa Shastra, Lahore (1928)

Notes

References

• P. K. Acharya, Indian Architecture according to the Manasara Shilpa Shastra, London (1927).
• Amita Sinha, Design of Settlements in the Vaastu Shastras, Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 17, 1998

See also

• Hindu iconography
• Vastu Shastra
• Murti
• Manasara Silpa Sathram
• Talamana

• Shilpa Shastras - India Art , Architecture, History and Culture Study Project