Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.18

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In my Ph. D. Thesis, ‘A study of Bhoja’s Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra’, a treatise on the science of Architecture, the VIII part was devoted to the canons of pictorial art as could be expounded mainly from the pages of this renowned text which has a unique distinction to have treated the subject of Vāstu-śāstra in all its branches—Town Planning, House building (Secular architecture, both common houses and special ones, i. e. the palaces etc.), Temple building (Temple architecture) and Iconography (both sculpture and painting) as well as the art of the construction of machines (or mechanical contrivances) among the extant manuals, the authoritative primer-texts on this most technical ancient lore.