Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c22.2

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This chapter has got a miscellaneous character where in specifications of the ground plot together with its declivity and other physiographical features are taken into account. This chapter also is informative in regard to the placing of the corridors in a particular direction and its merits and demerits are unfolded. The four-fold varieties of houses like Sacchatra, Sakakṣa, Saparikrama and Saprabha are defined. It has also enumerated the gerneral auspicious and inauspicious varieties of the Śālā houses.