Aparajitaprucchha

SR No.: 008438
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: B Bhattacharya
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Total Pages: 810
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Culture, & Art
File Size: 12 MB

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The Second invasion by Xerxes terminated in the naval victory of the Greeks at Salamis B. C. 480.
National (Grecian) exaltation caused by the defeats of the Persians is largely responsible for the fact that all the important temples now found in Greece were built in the fifty years which succeeded the battles of Salamis etc.
Another instance-
Vitruvius has 24 wind charts for different aspects of buildings, but as has been stated elsewhere the principle of वास्तुपदचिन्यास was known to the Aryans several centuries before the birth of Vitruvius.
The invasion of India by Alexander the Great brought the two cultures Indian and Grecian in contact with each other, and as is natural there was a give and take on both sides. If the histories of both these countries are minutely studied, they would go to show that the Grecians were indebted to Indian culture to a far greater Several instances extent than the people of the country they invaded. from the architectural point of view could be adduced to show that Greece was a debtor to India rather than a creditor. P. K. Acharya has shown an appalling bias towards gas, though gas really speaking, open up a vast store-house of knowledge in different branches of learning.
As long back as 1890 A. D. only 45° angle determined the relation between the width of the road and the height of buildings abutting on it, and it was only in the very year that the London County Council revised its rules with regard to light and air in residential quarters by the adoption of 63° rule.
Mr. Orr the Bombay Development Director, introduced that revised rule in his model bye-laws for Bombay suburban and moffusil municipalities.
The 631 degree rule enjoined that the height of buildings abutting on a road should bear a ratio of 1 to 2 i. c. if the road width be 80 feet, buildings abutting on it should not be more than 40 feet in height.
It will be surprising to learn that what the London County Council specified in very nearly the end of the 19th century A. D. was well known to Indian Architects at least a couple of milleniums B. C. at the lowest estimate.
The specifications of Indian sages who promulgated the arga will not only seem directed towards that end in view in a far more liberal way, but also referred to open spaces in residential quarters in requisite proportions when compared with the built portions as will be cleared from the वास्तुपदविन्यास.
The principle of agafarate forms the fundamental basis on which the superstructure of Indian area is made to rest. Study of this principle in its different aspects is on this account a great desideratum. The full significance of this principle will be found in its proper place.