ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA TERMINOLOGY

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SHILPA art and craft
SHASTRA rules science and basic knowledge
RASA THEORY the viewer's essence must be moved enough in order for something to be considered art
RASIKA the viewer
NATYA SHASTRA the science of dance
DHARMA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE) virtue
ARTHA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE) wealth
KAMA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE) love
MOKSHA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE) liberation
VEDA knowledge
RIGVEDA text from 1300 BCE 10 hymns by Indra (war) and Agni (fire)
ARYA noble
MANTRA a verse
MUDRA gesture
BRAHMIN vedic priest
KSHATRIYA vedic warrior
VAISHYA vedic merchant
SHUDRA vedic manual laborer
THE BUDDHA came from the SHAKYA clan found enlightment under pipal/bodhi tree gave first sermon in deer park four signs- age, sickness, death, renunciation
DHAMMA Buddhist Doctrine
SAMGHA buddhist monastic community
BHIKKU Buddhist monks
STUPA mound or heap of earth
PRADAKSHINA circumambulation
VIHARA Bhuddist Monastary
CHAITYA GRIHA prayer hall
CHATTRA The umbrella on top of a stupa which symbolizes the pipal tree under which the Buddha found enlightenment.
HARMIKA Fence around the chattra on a stupa.
TORANA Gates found around the stupa in the four cardinal directions which symbolize the far reaching scope of Bhuddism.
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