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This volume of the book entitled `Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture` is devoted to the study of Hindu architecture. It has fourty-six chapters. The chapters in this volume deal with the origin of architecture in India, The architecture of Rgvedic period, the architecture in the Later Vedas and Brahmanas, the Vastuvidya in Sutra literature, the settlement patterns, urban planning and architecture of Harappans, the residential architecture of Harappans, the architecture in the age of Ramayana, the architecture in the Mahabharata, the architecture in Kautilya`s Arthasastra, the earliest writers of the Vastusastra, the development of Vastuvidya from first to sixth century A.D. and onwards, the various orders of Indian architecture, the relation of Manasara with other treatises on Indian architecture, two principles of Vastusastra, the door in Indian architecture, the bricks in the Vastusastra, the origins of temples and the assimilation of Aryan and Non-Aryan cultures in the Vastusastras.
ISBN - 8180901744
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Pages : 488
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