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.c16.283

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The Northern or Indo-Aryan style of architecture covers the whole area once occupied by the Aryans “ usually designated as Hindustan ” to the north of the Tāpti and Mahanadi rivers. “ What is known as the Jain style of architecture in Western India is a development or variety of this Indo-Aryan order, and was used by the Hindus and Jains alike all over Rājputanā, Mālwa and Gujarāt. It was employed in its most ornate form by the Jains in their famous marble temples on Mount Abu, and by both the Jains and Hindus at Nāgdā near Udaipur. At Girnār also and Śatrunjaya in Gujarāt as well as Khajurāho in Bundelkhand are clusters of temple of this order.” ³ "Under this style are classified monuments of very various orders which may be separated into two or more distinct types." The Vesara of the *Mānasāra* is apparently one of these orders.