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The Bimbamana of Gautamiyasastra

 
E.W. Marasinghe (Editor) E.W. Marasinghe (Translator)
Synopsis The Bimbamana (popularly called Sariputra), an eleventh century Sanskrit silpa text on Buddhist iconometry, provides the most detailed treatment of the uttam-dasa-tala system pertaining to standing, sedent and recumbent Buddha images. All the available palmleaf manuscript copies of this work (numbering over fifteen) are from Sri Lanka which is most probably the country of its origin. Unlike the Manjusribhasita-vastuvidyasastra, another Sri Lankan silpa text which is boldly Mahayai in character, the Bimbamana appears to have been composed taking into consideration the Theravadic susceptibilities of the Sri Lankan Buddhist. This speaks for its wide popularity among the Sinhala craftsmen up to the present day. The text has been critically edited together with an English translation which is copiously annotated for the benefit of the lay reader.
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About the authors

E.W. Marasinghe

Dr. E.W. Marasinghe holds a First Class Honours degree in Sanskrit from the University of London and a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta. Presently he is Senior Assistant Librarian of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. The present work embodies the results of four years of research conducted by the author at the University of Calcutta for his doctoral thesis, as a Research Fellow under the Commonwealth Scholarships/Fellowships Programme. Besides Sanskrit theatre, hsi main fields of interest are Indian classical music and silpasastras. His next major research constitutes the editing and translating into english of a unique Sanskrit silpa text discovered some years ago in central Sri Lanka. This work entitled Vastuvidyasastra and ascribed to Bodhisattva Manjusri exclusively deals with mahayana monastic architecture of ancient Sri Lanka and is due to be released shorlty in Bibliotheca Indo Buddhica Series.

E.W. Marasinghe

Dr. E.W. Marasinghe holds a First Class Honours degree in Sanskrit from the University of London and a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta. Presently he is Senior Assistant Librarian of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. The present work embodies the results of four years of research conducted by the author at the University of Calcutta for his doctoral thesis, as a Research Fellow under the Commonwealth Scholarships/Fellowships Programme. Besides Sanskrit theatre, hsi main fields of interest are Indian classical music and silpasastras. His next major research constitutes the editing and translating into english of a unique Sanskrit silpa text discovered some years ago in central Sri Lanka. This work entitled Vastuvidyasastra and ascribed to Bodhisattva Manjusri exclusively deals with mahayana monastic architecture of ancient Sri Lanka and is due to be released shorlty in Bibliotheca Indo Buddhica Series.

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Bibliographic information

Title The Bimbamana of Gautamiyasastra
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.1994
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8170304172
length xxii+54p., Index; 23cm.