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.s4.402

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Historical facts, as stated above, cannot generally be extricated adequately from the complexities of the fiction. Moreover, although some vague conclusion has been inferred from the circumstantial evidence about the period in which Daṇḍin, the undeniable author of the *Daśa-kumāra-charita*, lived, no such vague idea even is available about the period or periods in which the semi-historical incidents described in the *Dāsa-kumāra-charita* might have taken place. Besides, king Mānasāra of the *Daśa-kumāra-charita*, it may be incidentally pointed out, was not the hero or even one of the chief characters of the fiction. He is stated, as pointed out above, to be the king of Malwa and a contemporary of king Rājahaṁsa of Magadha, who was the father of Rājavāhana, the chief of the ten princes (*daśa-kumāra*). In the *Daśa-Kumāra-Charita* itself king Mānasāra is stated to have been engaged in a war with king Rājahaṁsa, that is all.