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Vitruvius has added an explanatory note on the expression ‘all sciences’ of which the architect is required to have sufficient knowledge. This explanation will indeed throw a clear light upon a similar expression, *sarva-śāstra*, used by the Indian authorities. But for the following note of Vitruvius, we might have taken the term *sarva-śāstra* as an exaggeration, which is very often found in Sanskrit literature to imply nothing more than a general knowledge.