Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes The Planning of a Royal Palace (Rajanivesha) which is chapter 26 English summary of the Samarangana-Sutradhara by Bhoja. This work in Sanskrit representing a voluminous treatise on Vastu-Shastra (the science of Architecture), encompassing a broad range of subjects, such as Architecture, Shilpa-shastra (Iconography, Arts and Crafts) but also deals with Creation-theory, Geography, Philosophu, etc.
Chapter 26 - The Planning of a Royal Palace (Rājaniveśa)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 15 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
After the town is planned in all its broad outlines—fortification, roads, streets, gates etc. together with the assignment of the places of both the classes of deities, the internal and the external ones, the first priority must be given to the construction of the palace of the king in the town. Herein are given the details of the site plan and the categories of the Palace as well as its fortification all round. With these preliminary remarks the text describes in details the different chambers of the palace suited to the different members of the family of the king and paraphernalia of his establishment, a detailed notice of which has been taken in this study—vide Pt. IV.