Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c49.3

v1.c49.3

About Forty years ago when Sri B. B. Datta wrote his masterly treatise 'Town Planning in Ancient India' he had practically exhausted all the evidence on the canons of town-planning as was available in the ancient texts of Purāṇas and Vāstu-Śāstra texts like Mānasāra and Mayamata as well as treatises like Artha-Śāstra of Kauṭilya and Śukra's Nītisāra. It is proposed to correlate here on the new evidence furnished principally by the S. S. and secondarily by so many other treatises of Vāstuśāstra. These have provided some vistas of additional value, the opening of which will illuminate the development of their civic art by the time of Raja Bhoja, the 1st part of the Eleventh century A. D.