The Study of Saivagamic Treatment of Mahābhūtas Related to Mandalas and Arts

Abstract

The two great master-scriptures which deal with science of space and forms are the Saivagamas and the Silpa-Sastras, corroborative and corre- spondent to each other. However, we can deduce an element of difference between these two scriptural streams. While the Silpa works set forth the details concerned with structural forms alone, not disowning the concept of mathematical space and time, the Agamic scriptures copiously deal with both the conceptual and structural forms based on the concepts of space the time.