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Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 8
Update, 27 April, 2022: Prāsāda in the imagery of the Samarāṅgaṇa (68.47-8) (its author being a kin... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 7
Update, 27 April, 2022: In previous pages while dwelling at length upon the doctrine of Pada-vinyās... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 6
Update, 27 April, 2022: The classifications always have some basic principles. Either we classify P... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 6
Update, 27 April, 2022: 1. Vāvāṭa Prāsādas (Digbhadra etc. 12 temples). Digbhadra, Śrīvatsa, Vardha... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 6
Update, 27 April, 2022: The classification is based on a typical shape typified in a particular tem... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 6
Update, 27 April, 2022: I. Meru etc. 16 Varieties: Meru, Kailāśa, Sarvatobhadra, Vimānachhanda, Nan... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 6
Update, 27 April, 2022: I. The twenty temples, the Traditional Nāgara Prāsādas: Meru, Mandara, Kail... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 6
Update, 27 April, 2022: N.B.—In this group no specific designation is made of the Drāviḍa Prāsādas,... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 5
Update, 27 April, 2022: This subject of classification has received an expert treatment in works li... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 4
Update, 27 April, 2022: Literally, it is a local style, which must have originated and got develope... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 4
Update, 27 April, 2022: In the end something must be said about Lāṭa style. It is curious to note t... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 4
Update, 27 April, 2022: As indicated before, the Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra has no place for Vesara Besi... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 4
Update, 27 April, 2022: Though the term Vesara, as the technical name of an Indian style of archite... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 4
Update, 27 April, 2022: As the Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra belongs to the Viśvakarmā school of Vāstu-vidy... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 4
Update, 27 April, 2022: Indian Temple Architecture is classified into three broad divisions of styl... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 3
Update, 27 April, 2022: In the previous chapter an attempt has been made to trace the origin of the... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 2
Update, 27 April, 2022: Vimāna—the model of the Prāsāda: This topic of the origin of the Temple and... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Chapter 1
Update, 27 April, 2022: [Full title: The Denotation and the Connotation of the term ‘prāsāda’—the H... »»

Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture [...] Introductory
Update, 26 April, 2022: The main function of the science of architecture is to provide norms for th... »»

Vastu-shastra (4): Palace Architecture [...] Chapter 4
Update, 24 April, 2022: Nyāya-śālā (courts of justice)— Among the cognate buildings falling in the ... »»

Vastu-shastra (4): Palace Architecture [...] Chapter 3d
Update, 24 April, 2022: Three categories of yantras or machines as per my interpretation of the exp... »»

Vastu-shastra (4): Palace Architecture [...] Chapter 3c
Update, 24 April, 2022: The most important qualities of a Yantra in the eyes of the author of the S... »»

Vastu-shastra (4): Palace Architecture [...] Chapter 3b
Update, 24 April, 2022: What is a Yantra? The Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra opens with the definition of Ya... »»

Vastu-shastra (4): Palace Architecture [...] Chapter 3g
Update, 24 April, 2022: Now the question, which naturally arises regarding this portion of the work... »»

Vastu-shastra (4): Palace Architecture [...] Chapter 3f
Update, 24 April, 2022: In the notice of the manifold varieties of Yantra, the Vimāna machine was r... »»