Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s21: House

Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s21

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House

c9.s21.1

As food is necessary to sustain life, and clothing to protect body from the inclemency of weather, so shelter is necessary to protect oneself from the rain, the sun and the wind. The art of house-building (*vatthuvijjā*) was considered as one of the seventy two arts in Jain literature. Ordinarily, houses were built of bricks and wood. There were doors, pillars, thresholds and bolts,¹²² about which we shall see later on. There were lofty mansions for rich and well-to-do people.

c9.s21.2

¹²² *Rāya.* *Sū* 98.

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Rāyapaseṇaijja — Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit