sthapati
स्थपति sthapatiThe master temple architect who designs and directs construction according to the shastras.
Where this term appears
- The Vastu-Purusha-Mandala: The Plan Behind the Temple Temples
The person who turns text into temple is the sthapati , the master architect.
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
…once it is alive has its own guide here.) Behind all of it stands the sthapati , the master architect-builder of the temple, working within the inherited canon of measure and proportion.
- The Chola Age and the Temple as Institution History
In the town of Swamimalai, near Thanjavur, families of sthapatis , image-makers, still cast bronzes by the same lost-wax method their ancestors used for the Cholas, working from the same manuals, making gods fo…