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.s5.18

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There are eight types of single-storey buildings indicating different designs and bearing technical and mostly significant names. Similarly, the buildings of two storeys are divided into eight types, of three storeys into eight types, of four storeys into eight types, of five storeys into eight types, of six storeys into thirteen types of seven storeys into eight types, of eight storeys into eight types of nine storeys into seven types, of ten storeys into six types, of eleven storeys into six types, and of twelve storeys into ten types. The last ten types are given geographical names and seem to imply ten provinces into which whole India was architecturally divided—*Pāñchāla* (the Punjab), *Driviḍa* (Deccan), *Madhyakānta* (Doab), *Kaliṅgakānta* (Coromandal Coast), *Virāṭa* (Jaipur), *Kerala* (Malabar), *Vaṁsakānta* (Kauśāmbī), *Magadhakānta* (South Bihar), *Janakakānta* (North Bihar), and *Sphūrjaka* (? Gurjara.)¹.