Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c40.6

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The chapter is fully studied line by line in the study proper—vide Vol 11. Here it is enough to indicate that out of a very large number of gods and goddesses only a representative selection has been made by the author of the Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra. Accordingly Brahmā, Śiva, Kārtikeya, Balabhadra and Viṣṇu among the famous gods and Lakṣmī and Kauśikī among the goddesses together with the Aśvins and some of the Dikpālas like Indra and Yama as well as Piśācas, Gandharvas etc. etc. have been described.