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.s4.9

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23–34. The *Arka-kānta* is described here: the same (as the former with this difference that) at the end and the side of the hall (*śālā*) should be one part for beauty; in the interspace of those the two small chains (*kshudra-hārā*) should be equal to that; the width of the pinnacle (*kūṭa*) should be as before, and the remainder should be for the chain together with the window (*pañjara*); in the middle of that the width of the small hall (*kshudra-śālā*) should be one-third of that; at its sides the chains (*hārā*) should be made of three parts each together with the portico (*bhadraka*) inside; the central portico (*madhya-bhadra*) should be made of one-third of the small hall; the small chains (*kshudra-hārā*) of all (the types) should be furnished with the vestibules (*nāsikā*) and the windows (*pañjara*); the great vestibules (*mahā-nāsī*) should be in the middle (of all types) and the frontal hall (*netraśālā*) at the two sides; they should be decorated with all ornaments: these are known as the six kinds.