Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes The Town Planning (Puranivesha) which is chapter 18 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 18 - The Town Planning (Puraniveśa)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 10 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
The scheme of planning of the town (of all categories) with all the common components like Prākāra, Parikhā, Aṭṭāla, gates, Gopuras, roads, and streets together with the site-planning, residential quarters of the towns-men belonging to different castes and professions and the temples has been elaborated here in this chapter, the notice of which has been taken in detail in a separate part of this Study (vide Part II, Town Planning).
N.B.—Chapter XIX entitled ‘Āyādinirṇaya’ deals with one of the five fundamental canons of Architecture and therefore is reserved for detailed notice in the chapter ahead.