Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes The Declivity etc. (Nimnocca-adi-phala) which is chapter 37 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 37 - The Declivity etc. (Nimnocca-ādi-phala)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 20 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
[Full title: Nimnocca-ādi-phala (The Declivity etc. as well as miscellaneous Varieties of the houses)]
This chapter has got a miscellaneous character where in specifications of the ground plot together with its declivity and other physiographical features are taken into account. This chapter also is informative in regard to the placing of the corridors in a particular direction and its merits and demerits are unfolded. The four-fold varieties of houses like Sacchatra, Sakakṣa, Saparikrama and Saprabha are defined. It has also enumerated the general auspicious and inauspicious varieties of the Śālā houses.