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.s34.75

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This outline of the contents of a modernized text will clearly show its compilation in a confused manner. There is no logical sequence or order in the arrangement of the chapters. The contents of the same chapter have been unnecessarily described in several chapters. The patron being a king, and the primary object being the royal palaces, some twenty-one chapters (XLIX-LXX) have been devoted to the same subject. Because the compilation was largely, if not wholly, based on the *Mānasāra*, however, some thirteen chapters at the end have been devoted to the subjects of sculpture and painting, as has been done in the *Mānasāra*, although the treatment is less methodical. The preliminary chapters dealing with the origin of the world and arrival of the heavenly architect are the only original, but entirely non-architectural, matters.