# Shilpa-shastra

Марина Чиянова

About Ukrainian architecture from a Hindu point of view

Each building is a text,

Each moment is precious when you see them.

A long procession of coming of age

Among those buildings

Which seem to remember everything.


Each musical instrument is a prayer

And each story has its reflection,


Roughly


Through a Hindu 'optics'

Odesa would seem devoted to Ganesha,

Kyiv - to Shiva and Narasimha,

Kharkiv - to Sarasvati,

Lviv - to Surya,

Crimea - to the Apsaras and Rishi


Vinnytsia - to Garuda.


And each small town is equally sacred


From the point of view of creativity.