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) v6.c37.10

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This volume, purposely named, may justify its title, as it should supply a brief résumé of all sources of information generally indicated above. Parts of Chapters II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII were included in the writer's *Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra Śilpa-śāstra*, which was first published in 1927, but that edition was sold out in less than a year's time. The Government of the United Provinces accepted the proposal of bringing out a second edition, but preferred the scheme of the present volume, and consented to the change of the former title and the inclusion of illustrative drawings and photographs. The late lamented Mr. H. R. Harrop, the then Director of Public Instruction of the United Provinces Government, induced the writer to go much further and undertake the construction of a residential house in accordance with the rules and methods of the *Śilpa-śāstras*, with *such adaptations as would not violate the principles of Hindu architecture, but, at the same time, would satisfy present-day requirements*.