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.s1.43

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‘There is another group of buildings bounded on the east by First Street, and on the south by the First Lane. There are some five houses, four of which appear to be dwelling houses and the fifth one looks like a palace or a big temple. The first of these consists of only three rooms. The second one, immediately to the south of the first one, contains some seven rooms. The third house next door is a small structure consisting of only three rooms and they might have been a part of the second house. The fourth one was a larger building with a frontage of 62 feet. The fifth one was built in a block measuring 248 feet from north to south by some 145 feet from east to west. As many as 136 rooms have been uncovered in this block and divided tentatively into nine separate buildings. Besides the courts and rooms, numbered from 37 to 60 and 70 to 84, it probably embraced various other courts and rooms.’ ‘The spaciousness of its courts and general massiveness of construction,’ asserts Mr. Sahni, ‘suggest that this building could not have been an ordinary private house.’¹