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.c37.21

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architecture must be judged by dwelling-houses and such other buildings as are more unavoidably connected with our earthly existence, with our worldly comfort and convenience, and with our town-life with its privileged amenities but having peculiar restrictions and requirements. Mr. Harrop, who, as the Director of Public Instruction, handled the publication of the *Mānasāra* for some fifteen years until he retired, was very much influenced by his own reading of the texts, as well as by the expert opinions, not only of scholars and leaders of public thought, but also of artists, engineers, and laymen,¹ to whose commonsense Mr. Ramananda Chatterjee so vigorously appealed. Thus, at his express suggestion and promise of some possible financial assistance from Government, who had already made a small profit, out of the sale-proceeds of the entire first edition, a bigger trial was undertaken in October, 1935.