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.c42.s1.26

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The importance of this *Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture* will be generally admitted, and Dr. Acharya is to be congratulated on the successful termination of his prolonged labours, in which he has displayed not only scholarship, but industry and indomitable perseverance. His work is, indeed, 'not the end but the beginning of a new line of Indology' and it will now be for Indian architects, archaeologists, and students of Indian arts and crafts to examine to what extent the principles laid down in the *Mānasāra* represent those of medieval Hindu architecture and art, and to consider if they are suitable for modern practice, for philologists to suggest solutions of the problems revealed by the textual imperfections, and for Sanskrit lexicographers to avail themselves of the technical terms now, for the first time, made available by the complete text.