Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c55.24

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Every building activity has got two main functions to be attended to, namely the engineering of the building—surveying the site, testing the soil and selecting one to be planned out, and the operating upon it in accordance with the plan set out in the sketches. Naturally, therefore, an important building work like that of a palace of a king has to be attended to, properly. The S. S., therefore, has devoted two chapters to this important piece of architecture of the Rājaveśma. The master architect first has to attend to its planning—the laying out of the different parts of the palace on different sites. This it has done in Chapter 15.