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.s5.109

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So far as the lists of buildings are concerned it will be noticed that the *Mānasāra* contains in twelve classes ninety-eight types of buildings, the *Agni-purāṇa* has in five classes forty-five types, the *Garuḍa-purāṇa* also has in the same five classes the same forty-five types, the *Matsya-purāṇa* has in three divisions twenty types, the *Bhavishya-purāṇa* and the *Brihat-saṁhitā* have left out the broader divisions but retained the same twenty types as in the *Matsya-purāṇa*. The *Kāmikāgama* also contains in three divisions of various kinds twenty types, and the *Suprabhedāgama* having left out all the minor divisions refers to the three styles (Nāgara, Vesara and Drāviḍa) which comprise ten types of buildings. It will be further noticed that the various broader divisions, such as *Suddha* (of one material) *Saṁchita*, *Sthānaka*, *Jāti*, *Puṁliṅga* (masculine), etc., of the *Māna-sāra* are repeated in the same terms and in the same senses in the *Āgamas*. The most important division into the three styles is also preserved intact in the latter works. These are purely architectural classifications, and they are not taken into consideration in the non-architectural treatises like the *Purāṇas* and the *Bṛihat-saṁhitā*. Even the broadest division into storeys under which the *Mānasāra* describes the buildings in twelve or thirteen chapters has lost its prominence in the latter works.