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.c40.s1.24

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Of the seven strata, the first is represented by three walls, a square floor of brick, ‘probably the floor of a bath room,’² near the south-east corner of the Buddhist courtyard. ‘The second and the third strata contain portions of four buildings with a narrow lane between them and a number of more or less disconnected walls. One of these buildings is a well-built edifice of considerable size and is distinguished by the presence of a number of small paved bathrooms and particularly well-made drains, which suggests that it was mainly devoted to the bathing purposes and formed a part of the large hydropathic establishment to which the great bath and other structures on the west also belong. The fourth stratum contains a number of chambers at the north-west corner of the monastery, some fragments of walling a little to the north of them, a single wall running east to west on the east side of the *stūpa*, and two other walls. The fifth stratum is represented only by sections of two walls. One of these walls, from east to west, is situated at a depth of 13 to 17 feet below the Buddhist pavement. The other is a massive and finely built piece of walling, nearly 7 feet thick, pierced by an opening and provided on its southern face with an offset. It appears to have belonged to a building of importance. To the sixth stratum belong two small fragments of walling, one partly beneath the massive wall of the fifth stratum and the other near the north-west corner of the *stūpa*. The seventh stratum is represented only by a low wall and adjacent pavement in the deep trench outside the north-west corner of the monastery.’³