{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Vārāṇasī." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought in Northern India by Prof. C. Bendall in 1884-5." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "35 ff. (the first folio is a double one, with the uncut part folded as cover)." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Vikrama 1820 / 1763 CE." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Or.822" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Bendall, Cecil" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "
On the recto side of the first folio<\/a>, \"la° pu° ṭa\" is written in ink in the centre. The classmark (\"Or.822.\") is also written in ink by a different hand on the top right corner. In pencil, the title \"Viçvakarmaprakaça\" is faintly written across the top in cursive. There is also the stamp of the university library. <\/div><\/div>

Marginalia<\/b><\/p>

Some corrections in yellow paste.<\/div>
One marginal annotation on 2 verso<\/a>.<\/div>
Running title (vā° pra<\/i>), top left corner.<\/div>
Running invocation (rāma<\/i>), bottom right corner.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Śāstra; Vāstu" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Pothī" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Viśvakarman" }, { "label": "Scribe(s)", "value": "Sāṃgatarāma" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Cardboard cover.<\/p>

On the front cover<\/a>, the classmark is written in pencil; pieces of paper bearing the classmark are pasted on top of this.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Complete, in good condition." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Scribe:<\/b>Sāṃgatarāma.<\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "

Rubric:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> oṃ śrīgaṇeṣāya namaḥ<\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> jayati varadamūrti<\/i>(!)<\/i> maṇgalaṃ saṃgalānāṃ<\/i>(!)<\/i> jayati sakalavaṃdyā bhāratī vrahmarūpā   jayati bhuvanamātā cinma[1v2]yī mokṣarūpā diśatu mama maheśo vāṅmayaḥ śavdarūpaṃ 1   āvrahmabhuvanāṃ llokā gṛhasthāśramam āśritā   yatas tasmād gṛhā[1v3]raṃbhapraveśasamayaṃ hy aham 2   pravakṣyāmi muniśreṣṭaśṛṇuṣvekāgramānasa<\/i>(!)<\/i>   yad uktaṃ śaṃbhunā pūrvaṃ vāstuśāstraṃ purātanaṃ 3   <\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [4v16]<\/a> iti vāstuśāstre bhūmyādiparīkṣālakṣaṇaṃ prathamo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [10r7]<\/a> iti vāstuśāstre samayagṛhādinirmāṇe dvitīyo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [11v12]<\/a> iti vāstuśāstre tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [13r12]<\/a> iti vāstuśāstre gṛhādinirmāṇe caturthaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [19r10]<\/a> iti śilpanyāse paṃcamo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [22r13]<\/a> iti ṣaṣṭo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [24v16]<\/a> iti dvāravinirmāṇe saptamo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [25v9]<\/a> iti jalāśayādikaraṇe 'ṣṭamo dhȳayaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [26v14]<\/a> iti vṛkṣachedananavamo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [29v7]<\/a> iti gṛhapraveśavidhidaśamo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [31r8]<\/a> iti vāstuśāstre koṭavāstau [31r9] ekādaśo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [33r3]<\/a> iti śalyo dvāravinirṇāyo dvādaśo dhyāyaḥ<\/div>
Explicit:<\/b> [35v9]<\/a> idaṃ pavitraṃ paramaṃ rahasyaṃ yaḥ [35v10] paṭhen naraḥ na syāt vitathā vāṇī satyaṃ satyaṃ vadāmy aham 64 atha suvimalavidyo viśvakarmā mahātmā sakalaguṇav〚<\/i>i<\/i>〛<\/i>ari[35v11]ṣṭhaḥ sarvaśāstrārthavettā _ sakalasuragaṇānāṃ sūtradharaḥ<\/i>(!)<\/i> kṛtātmā bhuvananivasatāṃ sacchāstram etac cakāra 65 <\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [35v11]<\/a> iti vrahmokta[35v12]viśvakarmaprakāśe viśvakarmaṇoktavāstuśāstre trayodaśo dhyāyaḥ<\/i>(!)<\/i> 13 <\/div>
Colophon:<\/b> [35v12]<\/a> likhaṃtaṃm idaṃ sāṃgatarāmeṇa sarasvatītanūjena [35v13] saṃvat 1820 pauṣaśu[<\/i>dre<\/i>]<\/i> 7 kāśyāṃ viśveśasaṃnidhī śrīḥ <\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

The Viśvakarmaprakāsa<\/i> is an architectural treatise attributed to Viśvakarman, the creator deity who is said to have been the first teacher of all craftsmen, as mentioned in the Ṛgveda<\/i>. The text is divided into thirteen chapters on different aspects of construction, and covers houses (chapter 4), temples (chapter 6), and forts (chapter 11). The manuscript is complete and the colophon notes the name of the scribe (Sāṃgatarāma), the month in which it was completed (Pauṣa) and the city where it was produced (Kāśī, i.e., Vārāṇasī). <\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Viśvakarmaprakāśa" }, { "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": "Decoration", "value": "On folio 31v<\/a>, a table bearing the characters \"[<\/i>-1-<\/i>]<\/i> pū 1 va ka a\", and a second row bearing the letters \"ha e ta va 5 nai\". In the same place in the edition (Mihicandra 1985: 89), there is a 3 x 3 table that reads somewhat differently: \"ī pū a\" (top row), \"u ma da\" (middle row), \"vā pa na\" (bottom row). In the edition, the abbreviations clearly correspond to the cardinal directions or the presiding deities of those directions (Īśa, Pūrva, Agni, etc.) but, in the manuscript, it is less clear what the abbreviations mean." }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "Written area height: 8 cm, width: 24-25 cm.

15 lines per page, approximately 45 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 3 mm. Interlinear space height: 2 mm.

The first two folios are uncut. Rubrics and verse numbers are highlighted in red. Corrections in yellow paste.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Acquisition", "value": "1906-1934." }, { "label": "Foliation", "value": "

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

2. Original: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, verso.<\/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: T 4-9<\/a><\/div>
CC: vol. 1 p. 582, vol. 2 p. 138 and 225. <\/div><\/div>

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

(ed.), Viśvakarmaprakāśaḥ: bhāṣāṭīkāyutaḥ<\/i> (Bambaī: Śrīveṅkaṭeśvara Presa, 1985).<\/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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