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Indeed, the beginnings of the Vāstu-śāstras and the Śilpa-
śāstras are to be traceable to the Vedāṅgic Jyautiṣa, (Kalpa) Śulva-
sūtras⁶³ on the one hand, and to the Tāntrika ritualistic Yantras
and Maṇḍalas⁶⁴ etc., on the other.
Among the treatises on Nīti and its sub-class Vārtā and
on Jyotiṣa, the Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya, the Śukranīti and the
Bṛhatsaṃhitā of Varāhamihira call for special notice.
The Indian Artha and the Nīti Śāstras have been called
poly-technical treatises⁶⁵; and the Vārtā appertains to Economics.⁶⁶
The Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya devotes some six or seven
chapters to town-planning, the construction of residential build-
ings and fort, and specially military architecture. The Artha-
śāstra of Kauṭilya is an old work but in its present form not older
than the 3rd century A.C.⁶⁷
In ‘Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra, Viśālākṣa, Bāhudantiputra,
Bṛhaspati and Uśanas have been cited as teachers of Artha.
Compare also Kāmasūtra, p. 3f., where it is narrated, that from
the great work by the creator Brahman on the Trivarga, Manu
separated the part dealing with Dharma, Bṛhaspati—that on
Artha and Nandin, Śiva's servant—the one on Kāma. Mahā-
bhārata, XII, 59, 28ff., 76ff.’
contain exact rules for the measurement (Śulva means "measuring-
string") and the building of the place of sacrifice and the fire-altars,
and as the oldest works on Indian Geometry, are of no little importance
for the history of science."
63. See Note 62. Supra.
64. For examples, see श्रीश्रीशारदातिलकतन्त्रम् । Shāradātilakatantram, with
commentary पदार्थादर्श। Padārthādarsha. Edited by Aṭalānanda Sarasvatī.
Tantrik Texts Vols. XVI. and XVII. Paṭala 3.
65. P. K. Acharya : Ind. Arch, p. 132.
66. Narendranath Law: Vārtā—The ancient Hindu Economics,
Ind. Antiq., Vol. XLVII, p. 256.
67. M. Winternitz : Geschichte der indischen Litteratur, III
Band, (Leipzig. 1922), p. 523.