2006-10-22 17:37:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Vishwakarma is the architect of the Gods. He is credited to have laid down the baiscs of architecture, and hnce also Vaatsu Shastra.
The Vishwakrama Purana is an Uppurana.
The Puranas are sacred Hindu texts that were composed many hundreds of years ago. The knowledge of the Puranas supplements the knowledge of the Vedas and the Upanishads. There are a number of Puranas, but 18 or 19 Mahapuranas (there is a dispute in one of the Puranas being a Mahapurana or not). The main confusion is about the fourth Purana - is it the Shiva Purana or the Vayu Purana? The other Puranas are known as Upapuranas.
The Purana definition of the Mahapurana is that it must exhibit five characteristics: _It must describe the original creation of the universe (sarga), the periodic destruction and recreation (pratisarga) , the different eras (manvantras), the histories of the solar dynasty (Surya vamsha) and the lunar dynasty (Chandra vamsha), and the royal genealogies (vamshanucharita).
In the strictest sense, only the Vishnu Puran conforms to the typology rigidly.
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2006-10-22 20:12:03 · answer #1 · answered by Starreply 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Vaastu Shastra (Vaastu- physical environment and Shastra- knowledge/ text/ principles) is one of the traditional Hindu canons of town planning and architecture. These canons are codified in texts such as Manasara Silpa Shastra (by Manasara), Mayamatam (by Maya), Viswakarma Vaastushastra (by Viswakarma), Samarangana Sutradara (by Raja Bhoja), Aparajita Praccha (by Viswakarma's son Aparajita) and Silparatna. Other treatises such as Agni Purana and works by Kautilya and Sukracharya are not popular eventhough they precceded the previously mentioned documents.
2006-10-23 11:04:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Viswakarma Purana is nothing but Vaastu sastra. So if we refer Vaastusastra it is o.k.
2006-10-23 01:05:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-10-23 00:41:58 · answer #4 · answered by KatheeVonE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-23 00:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by sarah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋