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.c30.s1.382

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(*a*) The *Vāstu-vidyā* refers only to the ninth plan (chapter III, 11—26).
(*b*) The *Manushyālaya chandrikā* (II, 20—32) also refers only to the ninth plan
(*c*) The *Kāśyapa-śilpa* (II, 1—12) also refers to only the ninth plan.
(*d*) The *Śilpa ratna* (VI, 1—50) makes a mention of all the thirty-two names of the plans, but summarises brief accounts not of only three as stated (तस्मात् संक्षिप्य तन्त्रेभ्यो वक्ष्येऽहमपि तत् त्रयम् ॥ ३४ ॥), but in fact of the first ten plans, while even the *Mānasāra* gives details of the first nine plans only.
(*e*) The *Mayamata* (VII, 1—47) summarises the details only of the ninth plan and does not refer at all to the other plans.
(*f*) The *Agni-purāṇa* (chapter 105, 1—16) does not refer to all the names even, but gives very brief accounts of the ninth and tenth plans.
(*g*) The *Samarāṅgana-sūtradhāra* (XI, 1—30) also does not refer to all the thirty-two names, but gives fairly complete details of the eighth, ninth and tenth plans; but all these three are obviously square or quadrangular plans, although triangular, hexagonal, octagonal, sixteen-sided, circular, elliptical, and crescent-shaped plans, as referred to above, are admitted (XI, 20):
> त्र्यश्रे षडश्रे चाष्टाश्रे षोडशाश्रे च वृत्तवत् ।
> वृत्तायतेऽर्धचन्द्रे च वास्तौ पदविभाजनम् ॥ २० ॥
(*h*) The *Brihat-saṁhitā* LII, 42—50, 55—56) also does not mention the thirty-two names at all, but gives summarised accounts of the eighth and ninth plans only. This treatise also refers to only the square or quadrangular plans.