Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v1.c6.s23.111

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BAUDDHA—Belonging to the Buddhists or Buddha, the Buddhist images. Mānasāra (chap. LVI, named Buddha, 1-18) : Like all other images, the Buddhist images also are made of wood, stone or iron (line 14). Their pedestals are made of the three kinds of ābhāsa (marble), of earth and of gravel, etc. (15-16). They are also both stationary and movable (14). They are made in the erect or sitting posture and placed on the throne (3-4), and are furnished with the peepul tree and the wonder-tree (Kalpa-vṛiksha). They have two arms, two legs, and two eyes (that is, one face) (10). They are measured in the large type of the Daśa-tāla system (17). They are pure white in colour (5). Their garment is yellow (12), face large (5), ears long (6), eyes smiling at the corner (6), chest gracefully broad, arms long (10), belly large and round, and the body fleshy (8). They are furnished with shining top-knots (ushnīshojjvala-moulika) (10).