CIVIL ENGINEERING IN ANCIENT INDIA:- BUILDING CONSTRUCTION:- (source:-matsya purana 253-11, vaastu shastram shloka 5; Bhrugu samhita chapter 4; kashyapa shilpa chapter 4.) FIRST TEST THE SITE (EARTH); AFTER THAT PLAN THE CONSTRUCTION. It (soil) should be tested by digging a pit of 1 arm length and refilling it (with the same soil). If soil is more one will beget prosperity; If short, one will beget loss; If equal, it is normal.а THE MAKING OF BRICK. ( SOURCE:-maya matam, kalaa moola shaastram, Kapila Vatsyayana) Salty, off white, black and smooth, red and granulated, these are the four kinds of clay. clay suitable for making bricks and tiles must be free from gravel, pebbles, roots and bones and must be soft to touch. Then fill the clods of clay in knee deep water; then having mixed, pound with the feet forty times repeatedly. These (bricks) are in four, five,six and eight unit (widths) and twice that in length. а а Their depth in the middleand in the two ends(is) one fourth or one third the width. Again these bricks should normally be dried and baked. The experts, only after one, two, three or four months, again throwing (the baked bricks)а in water and extracting (them from the water with effort,(will put the brick to use). " IT IS NO GREAT SURPRISE THAT THE VEDIC INDIANS BUILT BRICKS WHICH COULD LAST NOT YEARS, BUT THOUSAND S OF YEARS...... ...HARAPPAN BRICKS CONTAIN NO STRAW OR BINDING MATERIAL AND ARE STILL IN USABLE SHAPE AFTER FIVEаTHOUSAND YEARS....."а (Refer:-Lost discoveries by Dick Teresi page number 60.) MORTAR:- (SOURCE- MAYAMATAM, KALAA MOOLASHAASTRAM, KAPILA VATSYAYANAH) In two parts of limeadd karaka, honey, clarified butter, plantain, coconut, bean.аа When dry, add water, milk, curd, myrobalan along withmolasses gradually. In the powder thus obtained, grow one in hundred part.ааа It is said by leading thinkers who know as rock like. ASSEMBLING PILLARS:- (SOURCE: - MAYAMATAM, KALAAMOOLASHAASTRAM KAPILA- VATSYAYANA) FIVE TYPES OF ASSEMBLIES- MESHAAYUDHA, TRIKHANDA, SOUBHADRA, ARDHAPANI AND MAHAAVRITTA ARE EXPLAINED HERE. __._,_.___
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