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VĀSTU—Architecture in the broadest sense implying the earth (dharā), building (harmya), conveyance (yāna), and bedstead (paryaṅka) (*M.*, III, 2–3). The building or harmya includes prāsāda, maṇḍapa, sabhā, śālā, prapā, and (a)raṅga. The conveyance or yāna includes ādika, syandana, śibikā, and ratha. The bedstead or paryaṅka includes pañjara, mañchalī, mañcha, kākāshṭa, phalakāsana and bāla-paryaṅka (*ibid.*, 7–12). The term denotes also villages, towns, forts, commercial cities, etc., a dwelling house, a group of houses (*cf.* PASTYĀ), a site (*R. V.*, IV, 37, 1, 2, *A. V.* II, 12, 1, etc.). Sculpture is the handmaid of architecture and is secondarily implied by the term Vāstu.
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- Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
- Atharvavedasaṃhitā — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit