Man, being the crown of creation, his dwelling place too should be the best. This need for a comfortable dwelling place, known as "house", along with other requirements of life was very well identified by our forefathers .India has the honor of being the first country in the world to boast of the origin of this "Science of House Building", known as Vaastu Shastra. 

Shri Maithili Sharan Gupta, a noted Hindi poet has written in Bharat - Bharati: "When the entire world was in its infancy! We, the Indians, were old enough in the knowledge of almost all the subjects of life. When others were wandering in the forest without even clothes, we were living in palatial houses seemingly touching the moon in the sky. 

"Whatever knowledge is spread in the world, we are major contributors to it. If our ancestors had not laid down the tracks of growth with their knowledge, science would not have grown in the world. The mysteries about which the rest of the world was ignorant, we had unfolded them all in our country Hindustan. 

Professor Max Muller once quoted in his speech, "If somebody asks me  which is the country where the man has answered the most complicated problems in various fields of life and science with his mental abilities and growth, I will say that it is the country known as "INDIA". 

Our Vedas are supposed to be the oldest available literature on the earth. Vedas contain the descriptions of GRIH, GEH, HARMYA, SHAALA, BHAWAN, AAGAR, and SADAN, all being synonyms of the word "House". It implies that our ancestors lived in well developed houses even during the Vedic era, the period to which the Vaastu Shastra belongs. 

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