Matsya Purana 258.19
Matsyapurāṇa 258.19
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- Sanskrit
258.19
tadaṣṭakena likṣā tu yūkālikṣāṣṭakairmatā.
yavo yūkāṣṭakaṃ tadvadaṣṭabhistaistadaṃgulam.. 258.18
The image with eight hands should be made to hold a sword a club an arrow and a lotus in the right hands and a bow a shield a conch and a quoit in the left hands The image with four hands should be made to hold a club and a lotus in the right hands and a conch and a quoit in the left hands Thus persons desirous of wealth and opulence should follow with regard to the four-armed Viṣṇu—7 9 front and the breadth of the centre of the knees is 21 fingers, their height is 1 finger and their circumference should be three fingers—50-54
Translations (1)
- The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
Linked texts (1)
- Matsya — Sanskrit
Discussed in (2)
- Mānasāra Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra-Śilpaśāstra; III. Mānasāra on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Mānasāra: Translation; V. Architecture of Mānasāra: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) — Acharya 1927, English
- Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) — Shukla 1958, English