Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c56.78

v1.c56.78

Again, these introductory remarks in connection with this topic of the development of Prāsāda-vāstu would remain incomplete, if I do not touch upon another essential element in the development, namely the materials, the different categories of which will form a subheading of another chapter. These are some of the broad currents which had risen from the different sources culminating in the Prāsāda mystically as deep as ocean and as high as the mountain.