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.s5.48

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After this preliminary account the sculptural details of the images of Brahmā, Vishṇu and Śiva are given in full. Brahmā is furnished with four arms and four faces. Two of his hands are curved in the boon-giving and refuge-offering attitudes. The attributes held in his hands are the water-pot and the rosary, or the large and small sacrificial ladles. He wears a diadem and the matted hair, a strip of bark, an upper garment. and various ornaments. His whole body is of golden colour. His limbs are measured in the large type of ten *tāla* measures of which details are given in a separate chapter (LXV). He is accompanied by his two goddesses, Sarasvatī and Sāvitrī, standing to his right and left respectively, who are measured in the middle ten *tāla*.