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.c41.s12.27

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‘Throughout these cave-temples the walls bear paintings *in tempera*. . . . The walls of the porches ordinarily display on the one side rows of men dressed in dark-red robes with wide-brimmed black hats; and, on the other, processions of ladies wearing rich wide-sleeved dresses and elaborate coiffure with flowers, bands, and pendants around bulb-shaped caps. These figures carrying offerings, which also recur on the side walls of the entrances to the cellas, are intended to represent donors and donatrices. The walls of the cellas and ante-chapels are decorated either with processions of large, richly robed Bodhisattvas moving under ornate canopies or with a variety of panels, showing familiar scenes from Buddhist Heavens, Buddhas enthroned among rows of Bodhisattvas, large representations of Mañjuśrī and Samanta-bhadra on their *vāhanas*, etc.’²