Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c12.8

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Father’s assignment of the respective duties to the sons is done. Now it is the turn of the sons to make query about the details of this great task and hence it is after the query that the chapter is named Praśnodhyāya. The questions are simply great and worthy of the great sons of the great Architect. All the cosmological, physical, geographical, astronomical questions together with their bearing on architectural subjects having so many ramifications themselves are put to the father by the eldest son Jaya. In these questions from the mouth of Jaya, the author has indicated the full scope of the Vāstuvidyā, a detailed notice of which has already been taken in the Study (Part I Chapter II).