Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c23.3

v1.c23.3

The chapter opens with the auspicious dates and days when the entry into the forest for bringing wood for house-construction should be made; then lays down details regarding the ceremonies and rituals in connection with the selection of the trees. Then a list of trees which are to be avoided in the search for proper wood is given. Trees, which grow in towns, on cremation ground, villages, by the side of the roads, on the tanks, in the vicinity of temples and hermitages, fields, gardens, interiors of the frontirs, on unfit soils, like those having a taste bitter, saltish, etc. etc. and those covered with ant-hills, are not to be selected by the architect.