Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c53.22

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It has been wrongly srumized and commented upon that India did not evolve secular planning or the civil architecture. A study of the Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra; a medieval treatise on the science and art of architecture is a definite repudiation of this misconceived opinion. This text though written by a king in the atmosphere of palace-court is really the landmark in the civic-planning in India and harbinger of the residential houses most suited to the middle class people what are designated as Śāla-bhavanas ? The story of the śālās is fascinating indeed and their antiquity goes to the socalled primitive age when man evolved the first house on earth.