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.s1.47

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Dr. Prasanna Kumar Acharya, I.E.S., Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Allahabad, has placed all scholars and researchers who are interested in Indian archaeology under a great obligation by the completion and publication of his monumental work on the *Mānasāra* architecture. Under instructions from the Government of the United Provinces the same author compiled some years ago *A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture*, together with a second volume on the same subject according to *Mānasāra Śilpa-śāstra*. Dictionaries available previous to that date, whether in Sanskrit, English or any other language, did not adequately explain the architectural terms of a remote past. For hundreds of years the texts of the *Vāstu-śāstras* had remained unexplored, waiting for someone possessed of the necessary erudition and industry to provide students with a dictionary which should enable them to make effective use of these unique manuscripts.