num_pages: 175
description: The purpose of this book is to investigate the nature of the soteriology the quest for liberation of Avaita Vedanta. The inquiry restrict itself to a concrete example of this tradition to illustrate the problem. There are two major areas explored in this study. The first involves the inter relation and interdependence of philosophy and religion. Gaudapada and his text are used to illustrate the synthesis of these two aspects within Advaita Vedanta.The Mayamata is a Vastusastra i.e. a treatise on dwelling and as such it deals with all the facets of gods' and men's dwellings from the choice of the site to the iconography of the temple walls. It contains numerous and precise descriptions of villages and towns as well as of the temples houses mansions and palaces. It gives indications for the selection of a proper orientation right dimensions and of appropriate materials. It intends to be a manual for the architect and a guidebook for the layman. Well-thought-of by traditional architects (sthapati-s) of South India the treatise is of great interest at a time when technical traditions in all fields are being scrutinized for their possible modern application. The present bilingual edition prepared by Dr. Bruno Dagens contains critically edited Sanskrit text which is an improvement over the earlier edition by the same scholar and published as No.40 of Publications de I'Institut Francaisd' Indologie Pondicherry. The English translation also published earlier has now been revised with copious notes. The usefulness of the edition has been further enhanced by adding an analytical table of contents and a comprehensive glossary. In the series of Kalamulasastra early texts on music namely Matralaksanam Dattilam and Brhaddest have been published. The medieval texts on music specially the Sribastamuktavali (No.3 in the series) and the Nartananirnaya (No.17 in the series) bring us upto the 15th and 16th century. In the case of architecture despite the IGNCA's endeavour to publish portions of the Brhatsamhita the Agnipurana and the Visnudharmottara-Purana first this has not been possible. Instead our scholars were able to complete work first on a late but important text namely Silparatnakosa. We hope that the sections on architecture in the Brhatsamhita the Agnipurana and the Visnudharmottara-purana which predate the medieval texts will be published soon alongwith revised and re-edited texts of Manasollasa and Aparajitaprccha. The Mayamatam is the fourteenth and fifteenth volumes in the Kalamulasastra series of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA).
language: English
title: Asparsa-Yoga: A Study of Gaudapada's "Mandukya Karika"
publisher: Motilal Banarsidass