Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c55.4

v1.c55.4

All the vital considerations necessary to make a living healthy and peaceful are bestowed upon the house plans. If material equipments such as furniture, mozaic floors, ingenious door-shutters, beautiful designs of windows, attached bath rooms, curtains and the like are not included in them, we shall not allow that to deter us from having a look at them. The fundamental basis of these plans is purity. This purity includes sanitation, ventilation and lighting—the prime necessities of life. The modern spacious and open varandahas, the sky-clear lawns and compounds, the gardens, the bed, the reception room, the study-room, the worship-room, the store-room, the kitchen and the bath-room, all these can be well provided in the house plans as prescribed by the Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra.