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.c37.41

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All other rooms, also, are similarly furnished with sufficient number of ventilators, doors, and windows which are built after the directions of the texts. At Allahabad the wind blows from the north-east for four months and from the south-west for eight months. Thus all the living and public rooms of the present plan of the Svastika Mansion get a free passage of breeze throughout the year. The kitchen block being at the southern end of the courtyard, and being shaded by the two towers and the bathroom walls, its smoke cannot contaminate the air entering into the living or public rooms. All these rooms are daily flushed by the morning sun, but the glare of the evening sun is screened off by the situation of the two towers and four large balconies and verandahs, four bathrooms, and especially by the guest rooms and the kitchen blocks on the west and south of the courtyard. On the other hand, the bathrooms at the south-east corner of the ground floor and first floor get both the forenoon and the afternoon sun, and the two others at the north-west corner are thoroughly disinfected by the afternoon sun. The courtyard and the kitchen block also get the afternoon sun from midday till four in the afternoon. The two rooms in the guest block get the sun from nine till midday and from two to four in the afternoon.