Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c48.5

v1.c48.5

In the history of Indian Architecture it is not the schools but the orders or the styles that are most talked of. But when we study the works of architecture both architectural like Mānasāra, Mayamata, Viśvakarmīya-Śilpa, Agastya-Sakalādhikāra, Kāśyapa's Aṁśumadbheda, Varāhamihira's Bṛhatsaṁhitā, Bhoja's Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra and others; and non-architectural like Āgamas—Kāmika, Suprabheda and a host of others; Purāṇas, particularly Mastya, Agni, Brahmāṇḍa, etc. and Pratiṣṭhā Granthas, and Pūjā-Paddhatis like Īśānaśivagurudeva's, Raghunandana's, and miscellaneous other works, like Haribhakti-vilāsa, Hemādri's Caturvarga-cintāmaṇi etc., we are bound to come to the conclusion that there were at least two distinct and different architectural traditions in our land.