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Cardboard cover, library binding, with classmark.<\/p>

On the folded paper sleeve<\/a> is recorded the following information: title (\"Rājavallabhaḥ --\"), number of verses (\"ślo° 1000\"), and number of folios, lines and syllables per line (\"p° 52-10-32\"). In a different hand, the library classmark has been inked (\"Or.102 11\"), and, in a blue pencil, the number \"10\" has been written on the top left corner.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Incomplete, minor damage." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Devanāgarī in black ink. Possibly, eighteen different hands.<\/p>

From folio 1v<\/a> to 13r2<\/a>, then continues from 13r8<\/a> to the end of 13v<\/a>. Returns at folio 36v<\/a> until 37v<\/a>, and then from 46r<\/a> to the end of 47v<\/a>, then 51r5<\/a> to the end of 51v<\/a>.<\/div>
Three verses from folio 13r2<\/a> to 13r8<\/a>, then from 15r<\/a> to 14v<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 17r<\/a> to 19v<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 20r<\/a> to 20v<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 21r<\/a> to 23r<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 23r7<\/a> to the end of 23v<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 24r<\/a> to 25v<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 24v9<\/a> to 27r3<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 27r3<\/a> to 29v2<\/a>. Returns from folio 41r<\/a> to 45v<\/a>.<\/div>
Section final rubric at the end of folio 29v<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 30r<\/a> to 32v<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 33r<\/a> to 34r<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 34r<\/a> to 36r<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 38r<\/a> to 39r<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 39r7<\/a> to 40v<\/a>.<\/div>
Top four lines on folio 46v<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 48r<\/a> to 51r<\/a>.<\/div>
From folio 52r<\/a> to the end<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Northern India." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought by Prof. C. Bendall in 1898-9." }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "47 ff. (numbered 1-6, 11-13, 15, 17-53)." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

The Rājavallabha<\/i> is an architectural treatise attributed to Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana, a sūtradhāra<\/i>, or architect/engineer, who is said to have been employed by Rāṇā Kumbha, a 15th century ruler of Mewar. The text comprises fourteen chapters on various topics, including house and town planning, the design and construction of palaces, and astrological considerations and omens. In this manuscript, folios 7 through 10 and folio 14 are missing. Moreover, at the end of folio 15, which corresponds to the end of chapter four, the foliation jumps to 17, although no text seems to be missing from chapter 5. There is no colophon; in fact, at the end of the last chapter, five verses from a different text, an unidentified work<\/i>, have been appended. The first line of this same text similarly appears at the end of a Rājavallabha<\/i> manuscript in the NGMCP collection (B 352-14<\/a>), suggesting that there may be a tradition of transmitting these texts together. This unidentified text seems to describe some astrological features (cakra<\/i>s) of the intermediate directions (southwest, northeast, etc.) as they relate to the layout of a dwelling. Moreover, five folios written in the same style have been inserted between folios 5 and 6 of the main text (See Or.102.2). These seem to deal with the cakra<\/i>s of different celestial bodies. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Unknown, probably 18th-19th century." }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Rājavallabha, an unidentified work" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Charles Li., CUDL PID Workflow" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper.

Folio height: ca. 11.5 cm, width: ca. 27 cm. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Or.102.1" }, { "label": "Decoration", "value": "On the recto side of folio 3<\/a>, a small 3 by 3 table of different varga<\/i>s, or classes of sounds, as listed in verse 1.20 on the same page. The table is also labeled with the four cardinal directions. Both editions consulted list the varga<\/i>s as \"ā kā cā ṭā e śā pā yā\", whereas the manuscript reads \"bā kā cā ṭā e ha sā yā\". The sketch matches the list as given in the manuscript.
On the verso side of folio 3<\/a>, a sketch of the Vatsacakra<\/i>, which consists of a serpent overlaid on a grid. This is a visual aid used to orient buildings with respect to the cardinal directions. The serpent represents Śeṣa<\/i>, a mythological creature who is said to support the world. The serpent is oriented according to the time of year, and should be rotated in a clockwise direction.
On the verso of the last folio<\/a>, are three sketches. From left to right: a table of numbers; a table of numbers embedded in a square with the four sides marked as the cardinal directions and the four corners marked as the intermediate directions; and a plan for a typical house, with the program of the house organized according to the principle of Vāstupuruṣa<\/i>." }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "

On the recto side of folio 1<\/a>, the classmark is inked above a red stamp bearing the abbreviation \"BISL. CANT. ACAD.\".<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Marginalia<\/b><\/p>

Numerous marginal corrections and additions.<\/div>
In the right margin of folio 21r<\/a>, there is a list, in two columns, of prastāra<\/i>s, as named in the fourth verse of the sixth book, on the same folio. In the right-hand column are the names: \"dhruvaṃ dhānyaṃ jayaṃ naṃdaṃ kharaṃ kāṃtaṃ manoramaṃ sumukhaṃ durmukhaṃ krūraṃ vipakṣaṃ dhanadaṃ kṣayaṃ ākraṃdaṃ vipulaṃ vijayaṃ\". Each name is associated with a combination of four light (laghu<\/i>) and heavy (guru<\/i>) elements, as represented by a series of four avagraha<\/i>s and daṇḍa<\/i>s in the left-hand column.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Śāstra; Vāstu" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Rāṇā Kumbha; Bendall, Cecil" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Pothī" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Direct inspection." }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "Written area height: 8 cm, width: 19.5-22 cm.

8 to 10 lines per page, approximately 20 to 40 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 5 mm. Interlinear space height: 5 mm.

Double marginal frame lines in back ink, on most folios; folio 21 has double red lines.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana" }, { "label": "Foliation", "value": "

1. Original: Devanāgarī numerals, top left margin, verso (inconsistently).<\/p>

2. Original: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, verso.<\/p>

3. Original: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right corner, verso. Beginning from folio 17<\/a>, this additional foliation marks the first folio of each chapter as 1, and counts until the end of the chapter.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p>

ULIB 7/3/55 = Bradshaw, Henry, Notes on the collections of Oriental, Thibetan and 'Additional' manuscripts [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1870-80).<\/div>
ULIB 7/1/4 = Griffith, Ralph T. H. and Daniel Wright, Assorted lists of manuscripts and books, chiefly Oriental, acquired by the Library, with related papers [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1873).<\/div>
List of Oriental MSS. Class Catalogue of Oriental MSS. [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1900\u2013).<\/div><\/div>

Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>

NGMCP: B 352-14<\/a>. <\/div>
CC: vol. 1 p. 502, vol. 2 p. 118-220. <\/div><\/div>

Edition(s)<\/b><\/p>

Mishra, Anoopa (ed.), Vasturaj Vallabh by Mandan Sutradhar with the Hindi Commentary of Pandit Ram Yatna Ojha<\/i> (Varanasi: Master Khelari Lal, 1996).<\/div>
Yaśavanta, Nārāyaṇa (ed.), Rājavallabha, athavā śilpaśāstra: junāṃ pustako uparathī taiyāra karī śilpakāma<\/i> (Amadāvāda: Mahādeva Rāmacandra, 2000).<\/div><\/div>

Secondary Literature<\/b><\/p>

Chakrabarti, Vibhuti, Indian Architectural Theory: Contemporary Uses of Vastu Vidya<\/i> (Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon, 1998).<\/div>
Dave, N. R., A Study of the Hindu Science of Architecture and its Practice with Special Reference to Rājavallabha<\/i> (Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2011).<\/div>
Kulkarni, Raghunath Purushottam, Prāsāda Maṇḍana of Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana<\/i> (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2005).<\/div>
Kumar, Prasanna, An encyclopaedia of Hindu architecture<\/i> (London: Oxford University Press, 1946).<\/div>
Pingree, David, Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature<\/i> (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, 1981).<\/div>
Shukla, D. N., Vāstu-Śāstra Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture, with especial reference to Bhoja's Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra<\/i> (Lucknow: Vāstu-Vāṅmaya-Prakāśana-Śāla, 1958).<\/div>
Shukla, D. N., Vāstu-Śāstra Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting<\/i> (Lucknow: Vāstu-Vāṅmaya-Prakāśana-Śāla, 1958).<\/div>
Vasudev, Gayatri Devi (ed.), Vāstu, Astrology and Architecture (Papers presented at the First All India Symposium on Vāstu, Bangalore, held on June 3-4, 1995)<\/i> (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1998).<\/div><\/div>
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