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Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c56.83

Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c56.83

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v1.c56.83

This fundamental conception of the Prāsāda viewed in the light of the architectural form can not have a proto-type in the residential houses either of men or kings. The Hindu Temple, the Prāsāda having its own characteristic of divine evolution and development, can not be mistaken for, or derived from a palace or any dwelling of man and the Samarāṅgaṇa has fully realised this fact as would be evident in further delineation,