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) v2.c16.125

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Within these courts, buildings of different requirements have been similarly distributed by the two authorities. For instance, in the *Mānasāra*, chapter XXXVI is called *Gṛiha-māna-sthāna-vinyāsa*, literally meaning, 'location and measurement of house', and chapter XXXII is called *Parivāra-vidhāna*, meaning, 'the buildings for the members of the family' (of gods). The corresponding chapters (Book VII, chapters, I, II, IX) are named by Vitruvius 'situation of buildings according to the nature of different places,' 'proportions of private buildings to suit the nature of the sites,' and 'proportions of houses in the country.' Detached buildings, situated both within the compound and outside, have been described in the *Mānasāra* in two very long chapters XXXIV, XXXV) called *Maṇḍapa* and *Śālā*. The term *Maṇḍapa* is used to imply, first, a house or pavilion set up in a village or on the bank of a sea, river, tank or lake; secondly, all the detached buildings within a compound which is divided into five courts; lastly, it implies various sorts of rooms in a temple or residential building. *Śālā* also implies almost the same kinds of buildings; but they are more commodious, and their forms and twelve storeys are taken into special consideration. Chapter VI (Book I) called by Vitruvius 'distribution and situation of buildings within the walls' may be compared with '*Maṇḍapa*' and '*Śālā*' with respect to general principles and methods. But Vitruvius's treatment of the subject is comparatively brief. The brevity of his account of individual buildings also becomes obvious when the 'arrangement and parts of Grecian houses' and 'interior of the cell and the arrangement of Pronaos', described in two small chapters (Book VI, chapter X, Book IV, chapter IV), are compared with the exhaustive description of similar subjects detailed in some thirteen chapters (XVIII—XXX) in the *Mānasāra*.