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.c37.23

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The object has been to demonstrate a residential design from the *Mānasāra*. The Svastika plan of storeyed mansions described in Chapter XXXV has been selected. The structure has been built upon a site which answers the primary requirements demanded in the texts, regarding the natural slope for drainage purposes, the wind direction for ventilation, and the sun's course for a correct orientation of a dwelling-house in Allahabad. This Svastika Mansion is situated in a delta formed into a tableland by the three famous rivers, the Sarasvati, the Ganges, and the Yamuna, which no doubt once met below the Bharadvāj-Āśrama, some two hundred yards to the north of the site. The Sarasvati has now altogether disappeared, leaving behind its trace by a big dry drain which forms the southern boundary line of the site, but her roaring eloquence can be heard and her reality felt for an hour or two after a heavy shower of rain. The Ganges and the Yamuna have been diverted, the former to some three miles north and the latter about two miles south of the site, by dykes built by the Moghals. They now meet below the Fort of Akbar, at a distance of some two miles.