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.s2.2

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(A) This belongs to the Library of the India Office (B.482). It is written in Devanāgari script on modern paper 9½″ by 7½″. It contains 100 folios, each page of which has invariably 21 lines, except the last page which has only 1 line. Each line is half a *śloka*. The *ślokas* are inaccurately numbered from the beginning to the end. The writing seems to be by one and the same hand. The name of the writer is not known. The colophons are written in red ink. The manuscript gives up the *Mānasāra* at folio 78b, line 16, the middle of Chapter XVIII (Vimāna-lakshaṇa), without any colophon. The remaining 22 folios, apparently belonging to another work, are retained in Appendix क. This portion has two colophons—folio 93a, *iti Sūkshma-śāstre Kāma-koshta-paṭalaḥ*; folio 95b, *iti Padma-saṁhitāyāṁ Raurava-bhede Kāma-koshṭa-lakshaṇa-vidhiḥ paṭalaḥ*. On page 101 it breaks off abruptly at the middle of line 1.