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From Formless To Form

— A methodology for making manifest the unmanifest according to Hindu Iconography

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The rich tradition of Indian classical sculpture and religious representational art is based on the visualisation priniciples laid down in ancient texts. The paper discusses the procedure of form creation and formal visualisation of the formless, the invisible, and the unmanifest, as given in Vastusutra Upanishad, one such ancient text; and discusses the effectiveness of this procedure as a means of creating meaningful symbolic form in non-religious context and applications also.

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  • Boner A., Sarma S. & Baumer B., Vastusutra Upanishad, Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi 1986.

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  1. Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Bombay, 400 076, India

    Kirti Trivedi

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Ten-nodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan

    Tohru Ogawa (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Structural Morphology Research, University of Tokyo and Professor Emeritus, 3-9-7 Tsurukawa, Machida, Tokyo 195, Japan

    Koryo Miura (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  3. Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Ten-nodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan

    Takashi Masunari (Professor) (Professor)

  4. Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Ten-nodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan

    Dénes Nagy (Professor, Director) (Professor, Director)

  5. Symmetrion-The Institute for Advanced Symmetry Studies, P.O. Box 4, Budapest, H-1361, Hungary

    Dénes Nagy (Professor, Director) (Professor, Director)

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Trivedi, K. (1996). From Formless To Form. In: Ogawa, T., Miura, K., Masunari, T., Nagy, D. (eds) Katachi ∪ Symmetry. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68407-7_32

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68407-7_32

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