Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c53.41

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Out of its 83 chapters, there are about a dozen chapters exclusively devoted to House Architecture (see “The Reconstruction of the S. S. Chap. V). It also devotes two separate chapters to the exposition of palace-architecture—the many-storeyed mansions and large edifices without storeys, serving all kinds of needs of a ruling monarch, the residential quarters (Nivāsabhavanāni, Ch. 30), the pleasure palaces (Vilāsa-bhavanāni, ibid) together with a vast paraphernalia of establishments—the court, the coronation-hall, the abodes of ministers, commanders, queens, princes, princesses and pleasure-gardens, orchards, etc. etc. (vide Ch. 15). Other buildings not falling in these three broad divisions of houses are: the assembly halls, the sheds and stables for elephants and horses. They are also dealt with in separate chapters (see “The Reconstruction of the Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra”).