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.s7.26
Mānasāra Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra-Śilpaśāstra; III. Mānasāra on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Mānasāra: Translation; V. Architecture of Mānasāra: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v6.c40.s7.26
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'The former is the prototype of the Buddhistic, Eastern and heretical *stūpa* architecture of the very next epoch, and through it of the Śaiva temple styles of subsequent ages (characterized by the round domes). The latter is a specially Brāhmanical style, associated with sacrificial altars and rectilinear figures, strikingly paralleled by the similar sacrificial and geometrical style of squares and bricks in ancient Babylonia, and represented recognizably in some later forms of Brāhmanical temple architecture' such as at Madura, Tanjore, and also in earlier monasteries or several storeys built pyramidically.¹