Shastra · Jyotisha
Brihat Samhita
Varahamihira's sixth-century encyclopedia, whose chapters on architecture preserve an early codified form of the vastu-purusha-mandala.
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- The Vastu-Purusha-Mandala: The Plan Behind the Temple Temples
The astronomer-polymath Varahamihira (6th century) treats the site-being in the chapters on architecture in his Brihat Samhita ("Great Compilation").
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
Nirukta is the etymology Vedanga, the science of meaning. Its oldest surviving treatise is Yaska's Nirukta (c. 5th century BCE or earlier), which derives obscure…