Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c23.2

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Wood was the earliest material employed not only in the architectural construction but in the fashioning of the sculptural objects like images of the gods and goddesses also. In Varāhmihira’s Bṛhatsaṁhitā, the Vanasampraveśādhyāya is written in relation to the employment of wood in the art of image-making. Here in this text, the aim of this chapter is to bring material from the forest for the construction of the houses. Hence the selection of the material, the fitness of certain trees, together with other allied details, though identical in both the texts, have different purposes in hand.