Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c53.4

v1.c53.4

In a country, like India, where the texture of living and conduct, thought and belief, food and drink, clothes and comforts, privacy and family traditions all these are vitally different from those of the West, a universal standard of the building and amenities of the accommodation thereof can not be visualised, because the climate differs, the soil conditions are divergent and the pattern of living poles apart. Hence the genius of the town-planner is tested in taking basic factors into full account, while constructing a new township in an ancient country like India.