Knowra Vastu Shastra Vastu Shastra Vastu Shastra is a traditional Indian system of architecture and spatial design that guides building layout and orientation through principles relating space, nature, and cosmic order.
Vastu Purusha Mandala : A square planning diagram that maps a building site into zones associated with the Vastu Purusha and deities. It is the central grid used to organize space in many Vastu plans.
Site planning : The organization of land, buildings, access, and open space before construction. Vastu principles are applied first to a plot’s shape, slope, and orientation.
Manasara : A Sanskrit treatise on architecture and sculpture that describes planning, measurement, and construction. It is among the major texts transmitting Vastu-related architectural procedures.
Hindu temple : A Hindu sacred building designed for worship, ritual, and the presence of a deity. Temple construction is a longstanding application of Vastu planning and orientation.
Hindu cosmology : The diverse Hindu accounts of the universe, its structure, and its relation to divine order. Vastu’s spatial symbolism draws on ideas of ordered cosmos and sacred directions.
Vastu Purusha : A mythic being whose body is mapped onto the site in traditional Vastu planning. The mandala’s directional zones are interpreted through this figure.
Orientation (geometry) : The positioning of an object or structure relative to a reference direction or coordinate system. Building orientation is one of Vastu’s main ways to relate spaces to direction.
Mayamata : A Sanskrit architectural treatise associated with South Indian building traditions. Its detailed guidance on sites, plans, and buildings exemplifies Vastu textual practice.
Indian vernacular architecture : Building traditions in India shaped by local materials, climate, craft, and social practice. Local building practices sometimes intersect with Vastu rules and adapt them to climate.
Sacred geometry : The use of geometric forms and proportions to express religious or cosmological meaning. Mandala-based plans make geometry a vehicle for sacred meaning in Vastu.
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