The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s5.24

c13.s5.24

The name of treatises on *vāstu* (building or architecture) is legion. Jeva Nath Jotishi’s *Vāsturatnāvalī*⁴⁸ Śyāmācharaṇa’s *Vāstusankhyā*,⁴⁹ which is an extract from *Todarānanda*, Viśvakarman’s *Vāstuvichāra*,⁵⁰ Sūtradhāramaṇḍana’s *Vāstusāra*⁵¹ may be mentioned. Gaṇapati Sastri's edition of *Vāstuvidyā* (Trivandrum Sanskrit series 1913) has rendered accessible the contents of a work attributed to Viśvakarman.