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.s2.4

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(C) This belongs to the Library of the India Office (E. 3141, 3014) and has been noticed by C. P. Brown in *Eggeling's Catalogue*, page 1131. Dr. Goldstücker refers to it in his *Dictionary*, page 284. It is written in Devanāgarī character on paper 11" by 7". It contains 472 folios, one page of which is left blank. Each page has 16 to 18 lines, each of which is a half *śloka*. *Ślokas* are numbered up to folio 100. The colophons are not numbered in the latter part. Most of the chapters are incomplete and described in two places. The first sixteen chapters are altogether lost. The first few pages are quite fragmentary. The fly-leaf contains the following: "This portion of the शिल्पशास्त्र was copied from a very ancient manuscript in the old Tamil character, discovered at Trichinopoly. It was imperfect both at the beginning and at the end. It was written out under the direction of Charles Philip Brown, 1830." But "from various indications it would, however, rather seem that the volume was copied from two different manuscripts, one a Grantha and the other a Telegu manuscript (Grantha manuscript, no. 1987, and Telegu manuscript no. 525 in Taylor's *Catalogue Rais.*, I 71; II 355)." It seems to have been copied from different sources by different writers, but evidently not from the sources mentioned here.