Planned · Opening 2028 कुरुक्षेत्र

A permanent seat for the tradition

On the field of Kurukshetra, where the Gita was spoken, the Chanakya International Council plans a campus of fifteen to twenty acres. Study, teaching, worship, publishing and daily life share a single grounds, held together by tree cover and open land.

Walk the 3D model See the drawings

15–20

Acres

1,200

Seat Assembly Hall

Guest rooms

2028

Planned opening

The plan योजना

One grounds, laid out around a quiet centre

The plan follows the large Indian ashram and institute campus. A ceremonial spine runs from the gateway to the Great Library. A shaded plaza holds the centre, with the statue and the tank. Guest life is kept apart from staff and service work.

01 · Arrival

One gate, cars kept out

Visitors enter at the south gateway. Parking sits beside the frontage, outside the pedestrian core.

02 · The axis

Everything faces the centre

Gateway, plaza, tank and library sit on one line. The Assembly Hall and the classrooms flank it on the cross-axis.

03 · Guests and staff

Two lives, kept apart

Guests live in a hedged court with footpath access only. Staff housing and deliveries use their own gate on the east lane.

04 · Working land

Grounds that feed the house

A kitchen garden supplies the dining hall. Groves and a shaded walk hold the whole perimeter.

Select a zone · Site 300 × 240 m · 10 m grid · after sheet A-001Concept, not final

The axis मार्ग

Five steps from the road to the library

The ceremonial spine is the campus in one line. These views come from the Council's massing model, built to the drawing set in true metres.

Gateway
The main gate
Two redstone pylons carry a sandstone lintel. Through the opening, the avenue lines up on the statue.
Avenue
The arrival walk
A tree avenue frames the statue, and the library's dome rises behind it. The whole sequence is visible at once.
Plaza
Parashurama Plaza
A 70 m circle, benches ringed at 28 m, the four axis openings left clear.
Tank
The sacred tank
Four tiers of ghats step down to the water, with a small chhatri at each corner.
Library
The Great Library
A nine-column portico between solid sandstone wings, a lantern dome over the reading hall.

Precincts परिसर

Rooms for study, worship, and a long stay

Four quarters of one institution. Each is sized against a stated basis, either a published figure or an assumption we name as one.

The Assembly Hall drum, wrapped in vertical stone fins, with a curved colonnaded foyer — Massing model views: the Assembly Hall from the plaza; classroom pavilions on the teaching lawns; a yagshala beside the tank.

Classroom pavilions with verandas opening onto the teaching lawns — Massing model views: the Assembly Hall from the plaza; classroom pavilions on the teaching lawns; a yagshala beside the tank.

Teaching and assembly शिक्षा

A hall for twelve hundred, and classrooms beside the pathshalas

The Assembly Hall is built for convocations, public lectures and classical performance, with acoustics for both the spoken word and music. A glazed lantern over the seating bowl lets in daylight and lets hot air escape.

Modern seminar and language classrooms sit beside the traditional pathshalas, not apart from them. Their shaded verandas open straight onto the lawns, so a class can move outdoors in fair weather, in the manner of a forest gurukula.

Assembly Hall⌀55 m · 1,206 seats drawn
Classroom pavilions3 × 40 desks
Teaching lawns3 × 30 × 18 m

The Great Library's south front, seen across the stepped tank — Massing model view: the Great Library from the tank ghats.

Library and press ज्ञान

Where the tradition is kept, studied, and printed

The Great Library is planned as one of the largest libraries of heritage and culture: manuscripts, printed books and digital archives, open to scholars and to the public. A double-walled, climate-controlled vault preserves fragile palm-leaf and paper manuscripts for conservation and study.

A working press, in the spirit of the Gita Press, prints classical texts and new scholarship in many languages at prices that keep them within reach. It sits near the gateway, where distribution is easiest.

Reading hall784 m² · 120 seats
Open stacks588 m²
Manuscript vault & conservation294 + 196 m²
The Press20 × 15 m

The statue of Bhagawan Parashurama on a black granite pedestal, holding the parashu, with the library dome behind — Massing model view. The statue is a stand-in figure; a sculptor's commission would replace it.

Worship and memory पूजा

A centre held by water, worship, and a teacher in stone

A great statue of Bhagawan Parashurama, sixth avatar and teacher of arms and letters both, presides over the plaza on the axis to the library. He stands with the parashu grounded at his side and a bow in his other hand.

North of the plaza, a stepped tank in the tradition of the classical stepwell serves reflection and ritual bathing. Two open yagshalas, each twelve columns around a havan kund, and a puja pavilion stand beside the water, open to residents and visitors alike.

Statue≈16 m on a ⌀12 m plinth
Sacred tank40 × 25 m
Yagshalas2 × 12 × 12 m
Puja pavilion15 × 15 m

The guest precinct from above: four two-storey blocks screened by a hedge and trees — Massing model views: the guest precinct from outside, and inside the court.

Inside the guest court: footpaths crossing a shared garden between two-storey blocks — Massing model views: the guest precinct from outside, and inside the court.

Where people live निवास

A residence fit to host fellows from anywhere in the world

Guest housing is built to host visiting scholars, dignitaries and their families in comfort. Four two-storey blocks face a shared garden in the quietest corner of the site, as far as possible from the service gate. Guests walk in along footpaths through three gaps in the hedge.

A common dining hall serves the community, supplied in part from the Council's own kitchen garden. Staff and domestic-help quarters are separate and dignified, with their own gate near the kitchens.

Guest rooms64 · 20.9 m² with bath
Dining hall30 × 18 m
Staff quarters2 × 20 × 9 m

Brahma Sarovar at Kurukshetra, a broad sacred tank with a temple on its bank — Brahma Sarovar, the sacred tank already at Kurukshetra and the model for the plan's own. Photograph by Ashish Bhatnagar, CC BY-SA.

Chand Baori, a deep stepwell of geometric stairs — Chand Baori, a classical stepwell: the geometry the tank's ghats follow. Photograph by Chainwit., CC BY-SA.

Sizing study मापन

Footprints sized against real space standards

Every footprint has a stated basis: a published planning figure, marked cited, or a design assumption, marked as one. This is a test of whether the programme fits the acreage. It is not a survey or a structural drawing.

Facility	Footprint	Area	Basis
Site	300 × 240 m	7.2 ha · 17.8 ac	PrecedentMid-range of the 15 to 20 acre brief. Cross-checked against International Centre Goa (14 ac), scaled up for a 1,200-seat hall and a residential programme.
Assembly Hall	⌀55 m drum	≈2,375 m²	Cited1,200 seats at 0.93 m² per seat with aisles [1], a lobby at about 1.0 m² per seat [2], and a stage of about 280 m² [3]. The drawn plan fits 1,206 seats in 28 rows.
Great Library	70 × 35 m	2,450 m²	AssumptionNo single code found. Sized for a 120-seat reading hall, open stacks and a separate climate-controlled vault; still to be checked against a library-planning standard.
Sacred tank	40 × 25 m	1,000 m²	AssumptionProportioned as a scaled reference to Brahma Sarovar, not a survey of the real tank.
Classroom pavilions ×3	18 × 10 m each	540 m² total	Assumption40 desks per pavilion at about 2.4 m² per student.
Guest blocks ×4	20 × 12 m, 2 floors	1,920 m² total	Cited64 rooms of 20.9 m² with bath, well above the NBC India 2016 habitable-room minimum of 7.5 m² and 2.75 m width [4]. The margin above minimum is a choice for guest comfort.
Staff quarters ×2	20 × 9 m each	360 m² total	CitedAbout 9 m² per bed, above the NBC minimum [4]. A 4.6 m² dormitory figure [5] is used only as a lower-bound check.
Visitor parking	96 × 22 m	72 cars + 2 coaches	Assumption2.5 × 5 m stalls with a 6 m aisle, to be checked against the local ECS norm.

[1]Auditorium seating allowance of about 10 sq ft (0.93 m²) per seat including aisles, consistent across seating-industry references.
[2]Lobby and circulation allowance of about 10 to 12 sq ft per seat, School Auditorium Design Guide.
[3]Stage of about 60 ft wide by 30 ft deep as a general rule of thumb, Seatorium.
[4]Habitable room minimum 7.5 m², width 2.75 m, height 2.1 m, National Building Code of India 2016.
[5]Dormitory sleeping allowance of 50 sq ft (4.6 m²) per person, U.S. International Fire Code Table 1004.1.1; an outside check only, not the governing standard.

Go deeper दर्शन

The drawing set and the model

Five sheets drawn in true metres, and a 3D massing model built from them that you can walk through in the browser.

A-001 to A-104

Concept drawing set

Site plan, Assembly Hall, Great Library, guest block and classroom pavilion, each with its schedule and notes.

Interactive · WebGL

3D campus model

Twelve set views from the gateway to the guest court. Orbit, zoom and download the model.