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.c18.205

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Callimachus, originator of the Corinthian order, 126. Cape Comorin, southern boundary of an architectural division of India, 174. Cars, description of, 60 Casting of images, process described, 86-87. Cavetto, name of a moulding, 127, 152. Cement, as mentioned in *Uttara-Rāmacharita*, 32, in *Bṛihat-saṁhitā*, 22. Ceres, temple of, 146. Ceylon, ancient seven-storeyed and thousand-pillared buildings of, 14; Samudra Gupta’s relation with, 184; King Meghavarṇa of, 191. Chaityas, assembly houses of the Buddhists in Western India, 6; monumental Kāsmīrian buildings, 30. Chakora, perdix rufa, cage of, 70. Chakra, discus of Vishṇu, 71; an octagonal type of buildings mentioned in the *Agni-purāṇa*, 113, and in the *Garuḍa-purāṇa*, 114. Chakra-kānta, a class of eleven-storeyed buildings, 50, 112. Chakra-vartin, emperor, palace of, 57; empire of, 59; one of the nine classes of kings, 181; his relation with other kings, 182. Chākshusha, one of the fourteen Manus, 166. Chālukya, a style of architecture, its territory and characteristic features, 177, 178, 179; its comparison with other styles, 196; temples of, 178; unique crowning members in the buildings of, 180; empire of, 185; period of, 190; of the Bādāmi line, 191. Chāmuṇḍā, one of the seven mothers, the image of, 75. Chāmuṇḍī-dhyāna, characteristics of the demoness Chāmuṇḍī, name of a chapter in the Brahma-yāmala, 109. Chaṇḍeshānugraha, name of a chapter in *Aṁśumad-bheda* of Kāśyapa, 94; image of the deity described also in *Āgastya*, 100. Chaṇḍita, name of a plot in a particular ground-plan, 38; a class of nine-storeyed buildings, 50, 112. Chandra, one of the authorities on which Sanat-kumāra’s *Vāstu-śāstra* is stated to have been based, 102. Chandragupta II, date and empire of, 185, 190; incidents of the reign of, 192; progress of art and literature in the time of, 193. Chandrakānta, a class of ten-storeyed buildings, 50, 112; name of one of the five Indian orders as given in the *Suprabhedāgama*, 125, 126, 150, 151.