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.s2.108

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33-42. The height of the building being divided into thirty-two parts, the height of the plinth should be two parts, and twice that the height of the pillar; the height of the entablature (*mañcha*) should be four parts, and the base (*masūraka*) above one part; above that the pillar should be four parts, and half of that the height of the beam (or entablature) (*gopāna*); above that, the base (*kuṭṭima*) should be one part, and the height of the pillar two parts and a half; the height of the entablature should be one and one-fourth parts, and the base (*masūraka*) above three-fourths of a part; the pillar should be two and one-fourth parts, and the height of the entablature one part; half of that should be the height of the platform (*vedikā*), and the height of the neck (*gala*) one part and a half; the height of the spherical roof (*śikhara*) should be three parts, and half of that the height of the head (*śiras*); it should be decorated with the sidetowers (*karṇa-harmya*), etc., this is called the *Rudra-kānta*.