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.c47.3234

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‘An interesting record from Hoḷal is the label cut on the capital of a finely carved pillar in the Amṛiteśvara temple. It is called in the inscription a Sūkāra-pillar. Speaking of the sculptor who made it, the record says that he, Bammoja, the pupil of Padoja of Soge, was a Viśvakarma, i.e. the architect of the gods in this Kali age, the master of the sixty-four arts and sciences, the clever builder of the sixty-four varieties of mansions and the architect who had invented (discovered) the four types of buildings, viz. Nāgara, Kaliṅga, Drāviḍa and Vesara. An earlier sculptor of about A. D. ninth century of whom we hear from an inscription on a pedestal at Kogali, was a grandson of Śivananni. It is stated that he made the image of the sun (divasa-kara) of which the stone in question was evidently the pedestal.’—(Government of Madras G. O. no. 1260, 15th August, 1915, p. 90, *see also* Progress Report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, 1914–15, p. 90.)