Architecture & Engineering
Vastu Shastra architectural treatises
1st millennium CE onwardMayamata and Manasara authorsMayamata; ManasaraPan-Indian / unspecified
0 CE
Traditional rules of layout, proportion and orientation for buildings and towns.
- Dated
- 0–999 CE
- As scholars put it
- 1st millennium CE onward
- Originator
- Mayamata and Manasara authors
- Source text
- Mayamata; Manasara
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Architecture & Engineering
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- Medium
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
Historically important texts; modern claims of 'scientific energy' effects are not evidence-based.
Path to modern innovation
Still influential in Indian building culture.
References
- 1Dagens, Mayamata (trans.)
Further reading
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