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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.c42.s1.6

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.c42.s1.6

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Dr. P. K. Acharya, Professor of Sanskrit, University of Allahabad, deserves high praise and warm congratulations on producing, as the result of seventeen years of devoted and self-denying effort, a truly monumental work on Hindu architecture, comprising no fewer than five volumes. The first volume is *A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture*; the second, *Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra Śilpa-śāstra*; the third, *Mānasāra*—Sanskrit Text with Critical Notes; the fourth, *Architecture of Mānasāra*—translation in English, and the fifth, *Architecture of Mānasāra*—Plates I to CXXXV (Architectural) and CXXXVII to CLVII (Sculptural).