houses in Vedic period
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A barrel like effect was created for the roof by bending the bamboo in the form of an arch and bending the bamboo over bamboo walls. The huts were arranged in groups of the threes or fours around an open courtyard, a conglomerate of such units was a typical Aryan village.
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The huts of the village people were of various shapes but the circular plan was predominant, and it was the natural tendency of primitive man towards round form. The foundations of the old city of Rajgriha in Bihar which probably flourished about800 BC indicate that circular buildings were then common, in the Vedic village Huts were of the beehive pattern made of a circular wall of bamboos held together with bands of withes and covered either with a domical roof of leaves or thatched with grass. A remarkable illustration of this may be seen in the interior of the rock-cut Sudamacell in the Barabar hill group, where every detail of the timber construction is copied in the living rock. A later date in the evolution of the Vedic hut the circular plan was elongated into an oval with a barrel roof formed on a frame of bent bamboos also covered with thatch. Soon some of these huts were arranged in threes and fours around a square courtyard and the roofs covered with planks of wood or tiles. In the better class houses unbaked bricks were used for the walls, and the doorways were square-headed, opining with double doors. One device to maintain the barrel shape of the roof was to stretch a thong or across the end of the arch like the cord of a bow. This contrivance constricted the chord of the arch and produced a shape resembling a horse shoe, a type of archway commonly referred to as the chaitya or sun-window.