Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c48.6

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These two streams of architectural traditions represent the two civilizations which were the precursors of the composite culture of India as we have evolved in these two thousand years. The rudimentary norms of Indian architecture go as far back as Vedic and pre-Vedic times of Indus Valley and Mesopotamian civilisations. One of the component parts of story of civilisation of mankind is the story of architecture that man had evolved in order to satisfy one of the three fundamental necessities of life, the habitation; the other two being clothing and food.