Shilpa Shastra

 

Shilpa Shastra is a Hindu scripture. A general term for the sixty-four norms and standards that regulate the mechanical arts and handicrafts via which anything is produced, manufactured, or fashioned.

The phrase shilpa shastra is most generally connected with two particular areas in the con literature of art and architecture, both of which had their rules rigorously defined by the medieval times.

One of them controlled the fabrication of sculptural images, requiring that the deities' images, as well as their distinguishing attributes, be carved to specific proportions.

The other topic was buildings, whether they were single structures like temples or groups of buildings in city design.

Temple layouts were fashioned after the human form (and so matched the sculptor's perfection in creating holy pictures); whole cities were similarly planned to create a harmonious urban setting.

Shipra River is a tributary of the Yamuna River, with its origins in Madhya Pradesh's Vindhya Mountains.

Because it runs through Ujjain, a central Indian city of tremendous religious and historical value, the Shipra is considered a sacred river.

Shirdi is a small town in Mahara shtra state, around 120 miles northeast of Bombay.

It is most known as the abode of Shirdi Sai Baba, a contemporary saint who first appeared there as a teenage boy in 1872 and remained there until his death in 1918.

He was revered by people of all faiths, and the shrine erected in his honor in the town where he resided still sees a lot of visitors today.

~Kiran Atma


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