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There is also an uncertainty lurking over the ages in which the architecture of Vitruvius and the *Mānasāra* were composed. “It is *likely* that” the former “was composed twenty-five years before the Christian era.” This conjecture is based mainly on Vitruvius’s mention of his patron, Julius Cæsar But there is no mention of anybody under whose patronage the *Mānasāra* might have been compose l.