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.s2.34

v3.c20.s2.34

Working on this principle, such emendations as have been thought indispensable for the constitution of an intelligible text have been invariably marked as such both in the text, within brackets as is usually done in editing an ancient inscription, and also in the Notes, and the actual readings of all the manuscripts have been carefully recorded. But I have kept in view the risks with which any attempt at emendation is beset in the case of so difficult a text as the *Mānasāra* and have accordingly endeavoured to exercise the utmost caution. For the same reason, I have abstained from suggesting conjectural restorations for all the passages in which the text, as found in the *Codex Archetypus*, showed a lacuna, except where it could be restored from the nature of the context or by reference to related passages with a reasonable degree of certainty.