The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c7.384

v1.c7.384

The second belongs to the Library of the late Sir Rājā Rādhākānta Deva. It bears the name of *Viśvakarma-prakāśa*, and comprises thirteen chapters as follows: I. Introduction, selection of different kinds of land for building houses for Brāhmaṇas, Kṣatriyas, &c. II. Months appropriate for commencing a building, the area whereof is to be regulated by the cubit of the owner, or of his wife, or of his son. III. Astral influence on buildings. IV. Bedsteads, shoes, houses, roads, *Maṇḍapa* and other objects. V. Offerings to certain gods. VI. Various kinds of houses, and making of bricks and other building materials. VII. Size of doors to be regulated by the planet which presided on the natal hour of the person who causes the house to be built. VIII. Direction, for making houses, tanks, wells, &c. IX. Ditto for cutting down trees. X. Ditto for entering a new house. XI. Rules for building fortifications. XII. Removal of bones &c. from the ground before building thereon. XIII. Characteristics of houses of different kinds, and their appurtenances.