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.c47.3235

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It has been pointed out already that Kāliṅga is mentioned in the *Mānasāra* (XXX 5–7) as the name of a *type* of building, but therein it is never stated as a *style* like the Nāgara, Vesara and Drāviḍa, the Kāliṅga type of buildings being apparently included in one of these three styles. In the same treatise there is another passage, pointed out above, where Randhra or Andhra is mentioned as a type of chariots. It has also been stated above that these Kāliṅga and Andhra might be two branches of the Vesara, being geographically placed on the two sides of it, the three together forming Tri-Kaliṅga or three Kaliṅgas. In one of the epigraphical quotations (no. 15) Bhūmija is mentioned alongside Drāviḍa and Nāgara, and this Bhūmija (*lit.* originated in the land or the style of the land, where the document was written) is apparently same as Vesara.