Untitled Article by Hitesh Sompura Vastu-Shastra takes into account astronomy, astrology, ergonomics, functions among others while

modern manuals leave religion, astronomy, astrology, philosophy to the designer's own imagination, interpretation and creativity. Rules of Vastu-Shastra render beauty, structural stability and quality of spaces by virtue of light, sound and volumes. The lighting of spaces inside a temple is orchestrated such that pravesh chowky (i.e. entrance porch) is semi-open with maximum light, sabha mandap (for worshippers) has moderate light with few openings and garbhagirha (i.e. sanctuary for God) is permitted to have only a single opening i.e. door in front of deity allowing light only on deity. This is for worshippers to concentrate fully on deity. The dome above the "sabha-mandap" creates a large volume so that humans feel small in largeness of the volume. In temples; they are supposed to feel small (insignificant) in front of the almighty. The rules of proportion give stability to structures.For example, restricting shikhara height to maximum twice the width of its base result in controlling its weight. As the size of pada (bay, the distance between two pillars) increases, the cross section of pillars also increases in size and width of beam has to be exactly same as that of the pillar. Even difference of an inch is not permitted because size of garbha griha, height of beams and most of the elements are governed by calculation of constellations and Aya. Even today, temple architects first visualize the temple to its minutest details. The process of temple construction can be divided into three steps. First is the planning of the temple by architect, second is the carving of different parts and the third is assembling the parts. In the first stage, the architect prepares a list of all the parts of the temple like the pillars, beams, and brackets among others. These parts are made of more parts. For example, the pillar is made or five parts, while the dome is made of many units

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