Work
Mayamata: An Indian Treatise on Housing Architecture and Iconography
Explore in the Atlas →Sanskrit Vāstuśāstra; cornerstone of South Indian architectural codification.
Cosmos Dwelling Type
Details
- Type
- Text
- Location
- South India (Chola period)
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmologyAncestry
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- Mandala
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawingOral song embodied
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- South asian
Connections
- articulates Vastu Shastra (the cosmic building grid)
- articulates Vāstuśāstra
Referenced by
- Bruno Dagens authored
Sources
- IGNCA. n.d.. https://ignca.gov.in/PDF_data/Books_Catalogue/Kalamulasastra_volumes_Texts_on_Architecture_Sculpture.pdf.
- Dagens, Bruno (trans.). Mayamata: An Indian Treatise on Housing Architecture and Iconography. Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Scientific Research, 1985.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Mayamata: An Indian Treatise on Housing Architecture and Iconography." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/work-mayamata/. Accessed July 17, 2026.