Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c56.5

v1.c56.5

The temple-architecture as portrayed in the pages of this most celebrated work represents the high strides, the temple architecture had made by the eleventh century in India. The very developed denotation and connotation of the word Prāsāda, the Hindu temple, its various origins from the different ancient institutions af worship and sacrifice; its manifold styles representing the local and regional centres of art and their exuberance of building activities, together with the temple types having so many ramifications betokening the high water mark, of the evolution of the temple architecture together with its planning and the accessory buildings—Maṇḍapas, Jagatīs, Prākāras etc. etc.—all these will be dealt with as side aids in our evaluation of the temple architecture by the time of Raja Bhoja. Needless to be specific about the contents of the chapters forming this Part. This is only a broad indication.