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.c37.9.2

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Great explorers like Sir Aurel Stein have unearthed various Hindu monuments over an extensive area in Central Asia, which has been significantly designated as Serindia in order to keep its home connexion with India alive, especially in the matter of architecture, both Buddhist and Hindu. Numerous savants, especially French and Dutch scholars, have published particulars, with minute details, of Hindu and Buddhist monuments of colossal character in numerous island countries of the Indian Ocean and the inlands connected therewith. This extensive area, also, has been significantly designated as Insulindia for the same purpose of keeping fresh in the memory its home connexion with India. In the homeland itself the astonishing archaeological survey of General Sir A. Cunningham opened out an endless store of architectural materials of the Buddhist and later periods. The wonderful discoveries, at first of Mr. R. D. Banerji and, later, of Sir John Marshall and his colleagues, made especially at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, have brought out an unexpected netherland, with its awe-inspiring cities and monuments which are stated to point to an Indian architecture of the pre-Vedic age, beyond 3000 B.C. These undreamed of discoveries have rendered quite stale the vigorous and learned controversy between Raja Rajendralal Mitra and James Fergusson regarding the architectural achievements of Vedic Indians, more specifically the question if the Indians of 2000 to 1000 B.C.