Numbers: Their Iconographic Consideration in Buddhist & Hindu Practices
Bunce, Fredrick W.
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Book ID : 1546
ISBN-10 : 81-246-0201-8 / 8124602018
ISBN-13 : 978-81-246-0201-0 / 9788124602010
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2002
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
xiv, 224p., Bib., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Numbers, in Fact, have always held a strong fascination for all various cultures of Asia. Considered to inhere both mystic and iconicsignificance in the Hindu and Buddhist worlds, their importance was emphasized in celebrated architectural treatises, like the Manasara and the Mayamata and they, (together with other complex procedures) were invariably utilized by the priest-architect (the sthapati) in the planning, design and construction of temples and other buildings. Not only the numbers, but even the geometric forms (like the circle, square or rectangle) came to have numerological and, consequently, iconographic in these cultures.
