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.c37.42

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The inner kitchen block on the south side of the courtyard comprises one non-vegetarian kitchen and one non-vegetarian Indian dining-room, and one vegetarian kitchen and a corresponding dining-room. Both the kitchens are furnished with smoke chimneys and have separate washing-rooms on their sides. There is also a shed at the eastern end which may be used for domestic animals or fowls. Rooms of the kitchen block are wire-netted in order to prevent the flies entering into them. All these rooms, as stated above, are daily disinfected by a flush of the sun’s rays from midday till four in the afternoon. The guest block, comprising two rooms on the west side of the courtyard and a bathroom in continuation of the office room, with all the modern fittings, has a small verandah on the east and a large one on the west. It faces the outer courtyard, in continuation of which are laid the gardens. From this western verandah one can get a clear view of the Thornhill Road rising up and up, and of the Muir College tower and the dome of the Vijayanagaram Hall. The outer courtyard, protruding below the large verandah on the west of the guest rooms, has, on its left side, the store block, comprising five rooms. One of these rooms is intended to be used as a European type of kitchen, one for storing water and the other three are stores proper. In continuation of this block, but outside the outer courtyard wall, are built the outhouses, consisting of one stable and cow-shed, one garage, four servant quarters, and two latrines. The strip of land on the Sarasvati (drain) behind the kitchen block, store rooms and outhouses, contains the kitchen gardens; and the grounds protruding from the outer courtyard beyond the outhouses form the orchard wherein a complementary pavilion may be built.