English: Vastu sastras are treatises on architecture, arts and crafts. There are numerous such texts, but except for a few, most are lost to history or have only survived partially.

This is one side of a page from a vastu manuscript, an undated old manuscript on Hindu architecture that was copied in the 19th-century. The language is Sanskrit, the script Devanagari. A copy of this text is preserved in the British Library, item EAP729/1/2/908.

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