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.c16.274

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These also refer to buildings. For rules referring to sculpture see the Kāmikāgama, LXV. 6--7; 12-18; and the Bṛihat-saṁhitā, LVIII. 4 (Kern's edition). "An interesting record from Holal is the label cut out on the capital of a finely carved pillar in the Amṛiteśvara temple. It is called in the inscription a Sūkāra pillar. Speaking of the sculptor who made it, the record says that he Bāmōja, the pupil of Pādoja of Soge, was a Viśvakarman, i.e., the architect of the gods in this Kali age, the master of the sixty-four arts and sciences, the clever builder of the sixty-four varieties of mansions, and the architect who had invented [? discovered] the four types [styles] of buildings viz., Nāgara, Kaliṅga, Drāviḍa and Vesara." (*Progress* report of the Assistant Archæological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, 1914-15, page 90). In another inscription (Ep Carnat, volume VIII, part 1, Sorab Taluq, Inscription, no. 275, Roman text, page 92, translation page 46, note 1) these styles are called "**Drāviḍa, Bhūmija,** and **Nāgara,**" of which Bhūmija, which literally means 'grown up on the spot', may refer to the Vesara style with Kaliṅga and Andhra as its two branches. These and many other quotations will be found in the writer's Dictionary under *Nāgara* “So far as is yet known, we cannot point to any buildings……of very early date, or before the sixth or seventh century, if indeed quite so early.” This is the statement made by authorities like Fergusson, Burgess, Smith and others. This may be referred to all parts and all styles of India. Cunningham has gathered together fragments of what he calls the Gupta style, of which, however, no single example in its entirety can be cited.