Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c72.4

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Fortunately this full-fledged scope of architecture is fully represented in the pages of the Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra of King Bhojadeva of Dhārā, one of the greatest literary luminaries of India and the greatest patron of Art and Literature. The writer, a student of this magnificent book with the magnificant title, written by a magnificent king, while working for his Ph.D. Thesis “A study of Bhoja’s Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra, a treatise on the science of Architecture”, naturally conceived the idea of pursuing this subject further up and this has resulted in brining out about five Volumes—Bhāratīya Vāstu-śāstra (Vāstu-vidyā evam Puraniveśa) dealing with a succinct outline history of Vāstu-vidyā and the ancient town-planning--both the rise and growth of the different and manifold types of towns and the Canons of Town-planning; the Prāsāda-vāstu (only one part is so far printed under the title ‘Hindū Prāsāda kī caturmukhī Pṛṣṭhabhūmi) and the three volumes already mentioned above—Pratimā-vijñāna, Pratimā-lakṣaṇa and Citra-lakṣaṇa.