Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c53.55

v1.c53.55

In the last chapters something has been said of these śālā-houses. I have distinguished them as private houses, residential houses suitable abodes of the common man, the middle class people and the humble people who according to the stratification of society belonged to different castes and professions as opposed to the uncommon houses, the ostentatious buildings and the extra-ordinary houses, the great edifices like temples—Prāsādas, Vimānas; etc., best suited only to kings, to the rich and to the divinity.