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) v3.c20.s1.4

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Lord Pentland, the then Governor of Madras and in charge of the Education Department, was induced by Sir John Marshall, lately the Director-General of Archæology in India, to take an interest in th *Mānasāra*, and some preliminary arrangements were made for its publi cation from Madras. But the unfortunate coincidence of H Excellency's retirement and Sir John's absence from India at th time of my arrival in Madras, forced me to leave the Presidency f Simla, where all the endeavours and the sympathy of Sir (then Mr George Anderson, Dr. D. B. Spooner, Sir Henry Sharp and Sir Sankaran Nair failed to secure a situation suitable for the "rebirth" the *Mānasāra*. At last an opportunity arose when the work could proceeded with in spite of other exacting duties. The Government India recommended, and the Government of the United Provinces offered me a post in the Indian Educational Service at Muir Central College, Allahabad. Sir Claude F. de la Fosse, the then Director of Public Instruction and the first Vice-Chancellor of the reorganized Allahabad University, took up the matter with friendly sympathy and scholarly interest and induced the great educationist Governor, Sir Harcourt Butler, to sanction the publication on behalf of the Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh through the Oxford University Press.