shastra
शास्त्र śāstraA treatise, or the systematic body of teaching on a subject, as in dharmashastra on law and duty or shilpashastra on craft. The word marks an ordered discipline with rules, as distinct from revelation itself.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
The dashas are codified in the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra , and about that book honesty is required.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
…he Upanishads, the Puranas, the Mahabharata, the Upavedas and various shastras , assembled into an essay, with fifty-odd pages of appendices after it.
- How to Read a Murti Deities
Gopinatha Rao, whose Elements of Hindu Iconography of 1914 remains the foundation of the subject, gathered the rules from the shilpa shastras and the agamas and showed how exact they are.
- Nagara, Dravida and Vesara: The Styles of the Hindu Temple Temples
Tradition holds that these forms are laid down by the shastras , the revealed canon, so that the builder is following a given pattern.
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
It has a technical name, rasa-shastra , "the science of rasa ," and rasa means, at once, sap, essence, taste, the vital fluid of a body, and, above all in this literature, mercury.
- The Four Aims of Life (Purusharthas) Essentials
Each of them generated its own dedicated body of literature, its own shastra , a whole science devoted to doing that one thing well.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
It is not found in the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra , nor in Varahamihira's Brihat Jataka or Brihat Samhita , nor in the Saravali , nor in the Phaladeepika , nor in any of the classical manuals where a yoga of…
- The Pancha Bhuta Sthalam: Five Element Temples Temples
On its gateway towers are carved, in sequence, the hundred and eight units of classical dance set down in the Natya Shastra .