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) v4.c29.s3.6

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But for a very special reason it would be rather unusual to give publicity to and acknowledge with grateful recollection the indirect assistance, indispensable as it has been, received from one's own people. Miss Śakti Chatterjee, who was educated in a convent school for girls at Shillong, though connected with Dr. Rabindranath Tagore, had acquired no artistic skill when she became my wife in 1923. Since our marriage, however, the traditional love of the Tagore family for arts, which may have been latent in her, came to help me immensely. She suddenly developed an enthusiasm for the completion of these volumes and contented herself with a sort of desertion during all these long years because I had almost wedded myself to the *Mānasāra* and had to give to this task all the attention and time, even during Sundays and long vacations, which could be spared from the strenuous duties of the Professor of a University (newly reconstructed into a residential institution for the first time in India), of the Head of a department of classics in these days of science, and the Dean of a Faculty including some thousand students and some hundred teachers of all ranks and of all temperaments. But for her enthusiasm these volumes, comprising some three thousand pages of crown quarto size, could not have been published in another ten years’ time, for my own patience and temper, as well as my eyesight, were put to a severe trial in doing everything single-handed in one stretch, without taking any leave or holiday since the work was begun in 1914.