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) v7.c47.3177

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The contention that the styles, Nāgara, Vesara, Drāviḍa, all belong to the south has been disproved by Dr. S. K. Aiyangar (*Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art*, Vol. 11, no. 1, June 1934, pp. 23–27): 'the primary division is Nāgara, India north of the Vindhyas, Vesara, India between the Vindhyas and the Kṛishṇa, corresponding to Dakhan of secular history, and Drāviḍa or India south of the Kṛishṇa corresponding to Tamil India,' . . . 'But in regard to Vesara from Veśya, Mr. Jayaswal (*J. I. S. O. A.*, Vol. 1, no. 1, p. 57) has little authority to rest on' . . . 'our derivation may fail or may prove satisfactory, but that is something entirely different from what the artist or the craftsman understood by the terms'. . . . 'That they (Nāgara, Vesara, Drāviḍa) had no territorial significance would be to argue too much, in the face of the explicit statement by the text writers.'