Table 1.1 Sacred geography of the Vastu Shastra
Table 2.1 Association of planets with human attributes
Table 5.1 Marriage rites and their location
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Maps 1, 2 and 3: Chris Crothers, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide.
Cover illustration and Figure 1.1 (right) and Figure 3.3, Sri Yantra, Ajit Mookherjee Collection. From Yantra: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity by Madhu Khanna, Thames and Hudson, London.
Figure 1.1 (left), Nairatma Mandala, Early Tibetan Mandalas: The Rossi Collection, Rossi & Rossi Ltd, London.
Figure 1.3, Vastu purusha mandala, Vistasp Mehta, bT Square Peg Design Studio.
Figure 1.5, Two spatial configurations of vastu purusha mandala. From Indian Architectural Theory: Contemporary Uses of Vastu Vidya, V. Chakrabarti, Oxford University Press, Delhi.