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.s3.3

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My grateful acknowledgment is due to another great orientalist, Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ganga Nath Jha, M.A., D.LITT., LL.D., until recently Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad University, for his very encouraging and generous review and publicity of the earlier volumes which gave me a new lease of life, and for giving me facilities, with fatherly enthusiasm, to undertake extensive tours (referred to above). For further encouragement I am grateful to Mr. A. H. Mackenzie, M.A., C.I.E., the Director of Public Instruction, who became more and more convinced of the importance of the work when he was officiating as the Commissioner of Education and where he came in closer touch with the Archaeological Department—the Department wherein the plates to illustrate the architectural portion of the *Mānasāra* were prepared.