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.s1.389

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In plate II are given figures of the seven plans, drawn with details found in the *Mānasāra*, excepting those of the fourth one which have been supplemented from the *Śilpa-ratna*. The tenth plan is also drawn from details supplied by the *Śilpa-ratna*, *Agni-purāṇa*, and *Samarāṅgaṇa-sūtradhāra*. The triangular and the circular figures are based on the details as supplied by the commentator of the *Bṛihat-saṁhitā* from Bharata and others. These two figures are slightly different from those given in the *Bṛihat-saṁhitā* (between pages 672-673) by S. K. Dvivedi; our figures of the eighth and ninth plans are also materially different from those given by Dvivedi, whose figures do not seem to conform to the description of the *Bṛihat-saṁhitā* itself. Dr. B. B. Dutt’s figures of these two plans (*Town-planning*, pages 145-146) also do not all plans, and assuming these characteristic features for the purpose of creation.