Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes The Eightfold limbs of the body of the Vastu-Shastra (Ashtanga-lakshana) which is chapter 9 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 9 - The Eightfold limbs of the body of the Vāstu-Śāstra (Aṣṭāṅga-lakṣaṇa)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 45 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
This chapter elaborates the fourfold Sthāpatya with its eightfold limbs. They are examined in the Introductory Part of this Study (ibid) with the exception of the seventh limb, namely—The Sacrificer’s i.e. Yajamāna’s shed. The Śālā for sacrifice has been very much elaborated together with its proportions and the paraphernalia of the Koṭihoma in the major part of this chapter. This Chapter also elaborates the planning of the Śibira, the Royal Camps, as well as incidently describes briefly the sixfold forts (see for details Pt. II—Town Planning).