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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.s25.68

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.c41.s25.68

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v6.c41.s25.68

So far as the antiquity and the variety are concerned, the Indian columns are so very remote and different from even the doubtfully restored columns of Persia, that no connexion seems to be probable. Synonyms of pillars are met with in the *Ṛig-veda*¹ and the *Atharva-veda*²; the former of which, in any case, must be dated before the *Zend-Avesta* of the Parsis. As regards the variety, they are far too many to be referred to: they are given in detail in the writer's *Dictionary of Hindu Architecture*.³

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