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Vastuvidya Systems of Indian Architecture
Author : Tarapada Bhattacharyya
Rs. : 1995/-
Pages : 384
Published By : Ajay Book Service
4215/1, Basement (Near R-Chand & Co.) Ansari Road,
New Delhi - 110002, India
Reviewed By- Prof. P. K. Arya
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Vastuvidya is one of the most mysterious and astrological Vidya in the field of Architecture. Indian Architecture and its Vastusastra had have been famous for global and golden reputation. Several books on it have since been written and many researches have been made on it. One of the most researches was made by Tarapada Bhattacharyya. T. Bhattacharyya had drunk deep several Indian books of Architecture and after diggesting and assimilating them put it into the book of “Vastuvidya System and Indian Architecture” is publised by Ajay Book Service, New Delhi. 29 chapters of this book concluded into 384 pages.
The book focuses light on the origin and development of indian Architecture. Indian Architecture has crossed various phase of its development from Rigvedic time to our time. He emphasized comparatively and analytically all phases of its development.
History is not only a story of past, it is story of our civility and culture too. History is product of our Literature that is mirror of our society. Literature of today will be the history of Tommorrow. So the scholar went deep focus into the Indian Literature ( Rigvedic Literature and Mantrasastra) and history of Indian Architecture.
The indian Vastusastra of Indian architecture is a field of study in which very few scholars have deeply worked in the last few years in India. ‘Brihat Samhila’, ‘Samarangaon Sutradhara and the ‘Isana-Siva-Gurudeva paddhati’ are part of Indian Vastusastra. By the order of South Indian inscription ‘Isana-Siva-Gurudeva’ was the preceptor of the king of Chola dynasty. He has helped a lot of form a chronology of the Indian Vastusastra.
The origion of Indian Vastusastra, the different phase of its development, the relation of the north indian Vastuvidya to that the south, the relation of Southern Indian texts to one another and the probable age of Compilation of the various texts which from the main theme of this book, which have not yet been discussed by any scholar. Many scholars have attempted to apply these canons to the interpretation of actual specimens of indian architecture. But as they so long depended on ‘Manasara’ and other allied south indian text and as the technical terms used in these works have not yet been properly interpreted they generally failed in those attempts. T. Bhattacharyya have emphasized the contribution of the Dravidians and other ancient Non-Aryan races of India to Indian Architecture. The Roman writter on architecture has also been discussed in this book . The book shows that there were two schools of Indian Vastuvidya the North Indian and the South Indian, a fact which has not yet been proved by any scholar.
The method Author has followed is first to make ad analytical study of the references to indian architectural matters and then to build up a theory. In the first nine chapters, therefore, author has collected the important refrences from the works of the Vedic period and those of later period. T. Bhattacharyya has paid more attention to the references which may help us to trace the gradual development of Vastuvidya. In 29th Chapter the Scholar gives the summary of all his conclussion and has been suggested the rise and decline of it was associated with Indian political Royal power.
I hoped that the theories propounded by him may show the way to future worker in the field of Architecture.
This book will lead a new line of research and investigation into the study of Indian Architecture. There is much need of research and investigation into this field. Government should courage and give financial support to need the problem from that suffer T. Bhattcharya.
The book have been mentioned so often that any initial of their names will be sufficient for understanding them. In conclusion, I think, this book will show a new line of investigation into the study of India narchitecture, inspite of its innumerable shortcoming.
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