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 (Puranive艣a)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to Chapter 10 of the original 厂补尘补谤腻峁単补峁嘺-厂奴迟谤补诲丑腻谤补]
The scheme of planning of the town (of all categories) with all the common components like 笔谤腻办腻谤补, Parikh膩, 础峁弓腻濒补, 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.鈥擟hapter XIX entitled 鈥樐�y膩dinir峁嘺ya鈥� deals with one of the five fundamental canons of Architecture and therefore is reserved for detailed notice in the chapter ahead.