Vastu Shastra is one of the many great sciences that have come to us from the Vedas or the knowledge books of India. Silpa Shastra, or Vastu Shastra as it is variously called is said to be a Upa Veda or a minor Veda. Also known as Sthapatya Veda or Sthapatya Shastra, it is the applied knowledge of the Atharva Veda just as Ayurveda is attached to Rigveda, Dhanurveda to Yajurveda and Gandharvaveda to Samaveda. This science of utility is bequeathed to the world from a land that is India with a diversity of cultures, topography, climates, socio-economic lives and philosopher-scientists of Jyotisha, Vastu, Yoga, Vedanta, Ayurveda and the Dharmasastras that highlight the concepts of duties and responsibilities based on fundamental moral virtues.
Vastu Shastra talks about architecture in its broadest sense — buildings, religious and secular, town planning, laying out gardens, making of roads, bridges, tanks, drains, moats and even furniture and conveyances. Also called as Vastu Vidya, it is both an art and science and covers orientation, identifying the cardinal directions with the help of a Sanku or gnomon, selection of site, testing of soil for fitness and creating fertility, planning and designing, etc.
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