Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.19

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A very high opinion of the expert examiners and their praises of this Ph. D. Thesis encourged the present writer to carry on the extended study of his Ph. D. subject under an extended title—Hindu Science of Architecture. Thus this labour of mine has resulted into two volumes, one comprising the exposition of Engineering and Architecture (Town Planning, House Architecture, Palace Architecture and palace decorations, Temple-architecture, etc., along with a brief outline history of Vāstuvidyā with special reference to the position of the two medieval texts of Vāstuśāstra—the Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra of King Bhojdeva of Dhārā and Aparājita-Pracchā of Bhuvanadevācārya), the other is chiefly devoted to Iconography and Painting. Accordingly in the latter (being published first)—vide the last two parts, ‘The Canons of Iconography’ and ‘The Pratimālakṣaṇas’—we have already travelled a good deal of distance in the far off shining lands of the Shining Ones and now in this third part—The Hindu Canons of Painting (being published both as an independent treatise and forming an integral part of the second volume of ‘Hindu Science of Architecture’).—I have made an endeavour to treat the subject in a manner hitherto unattempted.