Vishvakarma-Prakasha: As It Is (Science of Architecture)

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About the Book
“Arthaveda”, the Upveda of Atharvaveda, is ‘Shilpshastra- Science of Architecture; one of its texts is composed by Sage Visvakarma. And “Vishwakarma Prakash” is the treatise that is accepted as “Shilp-Shastra”. Again this “Shilpshastra” is known as “Vastu Shastra” in present times. The second ancient text of Silpasastras is Mayamatam, which is more prevalent in Southern India. In ancient times, the sculptural science propounded in Vishwakarma Prakash was prevalent in North India.
This present explanation on “Vishwakarma Prakash” explains the rules of “Silpasastras” “As it is”, based on the inner-testimony of the scripture. To understand the true form of scripture, one should depend on the original text of the scripture only, and not on a commentary made by the later interpreters. This feature makes this commentary distinguished from the other published interpretations and gives it a special place.

The main feature of this interpretation is that the interpreter himself is a practitioner of Vastu. In this book, he has explained the unit of measurement ‘Hasta’ on the basis of the words used in the “Shloka” and has applied it for the construction of house, bed, door, etc. Similarly, by resolving the functional discrepancies for the calculation of Ayaadi’, its real form has been justified. Similarly, various astrology terms used in the shlokas have also been explained, so that the reader does not need to take the help of any other book to understand the interpretation.