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.s2.80

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41-49. As an alternative, the measure of the height being divided into thirty parts, the base should be two parts, and twice that (i.e., four parts) the height of the pillar; half of that (i.e., two parts) should be the height of the entablature, and the upper entablature (*mañcha*) equal to that (i e., two parts); the pillar above should be three and-a-half parts, and the entablature (*māñchaka*) one part and a half; equal to that (i.e., one and a half parts) should be the upper entablature (*mañcha*), and the pillar above three parts; the entablature should be one and one-fourth parts, and equal to that the upper entablature (*mañchaka*); half of that should be the height of the platform (*vedikā*), and equal to that the height of the neck (*kandhara*); the height of the head (*śiras*) should be twice the neck (*grīva*), and the remainder should be the height of the dome (*stūpi*); furnished with the sidetower (*karṇa-harmya*), etc., it is known as *Meru-kānta*.