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.s4.32

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17-27. The width of the edifice being divided into thirty-four parts, the great hall (*mahā-śālā*) should be eight parts, and the halls (*śālā*) at its sides one part each; the minor window-hall (*anupañjara-śālā*) should be two parts, and half of that the corridor (*antarālaka*), the antechamber (*anu-śālā*) should be three parts, and the corridor (*antarālaka*) (thereof) one part; the window hall (*pañjara-śālā*) should be two parts, and the chain (*hārā*) at the side one part; the pinnacles (*kūṭa*) should be two parts each, and all of them should be tastefully furnished with the portico (*bhadraka*); the central portico (*madhya-bhadra*) should be made one fourth part of the great hall (*mahā-śālā*); in all the storeys of the edifice there should be sixteen hall-windows (*śālā-pañjara*); in the interior of it there should be eight small halls (*kshudra-śālā*) each furnished with two chains (*hārā*); in each storey there should be a great hall (*mahā-śālā*) and four pinnacles (*kūṭa*) at the four sides (of each storey); and the remaining members should be as before: this is the *Virāṭa-kānta*.