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.s9.51

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Houses were built comprising ‘dwelling-rooms and retiring-rooms, and store-rooms, and service halls, and halls with fire-places in them, and store-houses, and closets, and cloisters, and halls for exercise, and wells, and sheds for the wells, and bathrooms, and halls attached to the bathrooms, and ponds, and open-roofed sheds (*maṇḍapas*)’.¹ These buildings are meant to be dwelling-houses; so it is stated that ‘an *upāsaka* (devotee) has built for his own use a residence, a sleeping room, a stable, a tower, a one-peaked building, a shop, a *boutique*, a storeyed house, an attic, a cave, a cell, a store-room, a refectory, a fire-room, a kitchen, a privy, a place to walk in, a house to walk in, a well, a well-house, a *yanba-griha* (which is supposed by Bühler to be ‘a bathing place for hot sitting baths’), a *yantra-griha* room, a lotus pond and a pavilion.’²