Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes Towns and their Categories (Nagaradisamjnya) which is chapter 17 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 17 - Towns and their Categories (Nagarādisaṃjñyā)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 18 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
This chapter is of encyclopedic nature and as its very name indicates, it does not deal with any particular topic but rather enumerates and defines the various and manifold architectural terms in relation to House Architecture and the Palace Architecture together with the more popular terms in relation to the town planning.