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.s25.16

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The scanty remains of the Mayas of Central America, however, do not supply details for a satisfactory comparison with the temples, palaces, dwellings, etc., elaborately described in the *Mānasāra* and other *Śilpa-śāstras*. But the walls referred to by Dr. Gann look like the city walls described in the *Mānasāra*. If the city within these walls could be identified together with its buildings, roads, plan, etc., it is not unlikely that we might have found there one of the numerous town-plannings minutely described in the *Śilpa-śāstras*. It is, however, fortunate that Professor Grafton Elliot Smith, of University College, London, has been able to establish the Indian connexion with the Central American Maya ruins through the Indian Archipelago or Insulindia, of whose monuments a full account has been given in the preceding chapter.