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.c47.3579

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The geometrical plans concerning the site, rather than a building, are described in this chapter (lines 1-267). There is no mention of the perspective or the raised plan. What is given there is all about the site or the plot or the piece of ground selected to receive the building. Thirty-two kinds of square plans are described (lines 2–40). They are designated by technical names. The first one is a site of one plot, which may be square, rectangular, round, oval or sixteen-sided, it is called *Sakala*. The second is of 4 plots, named *Paiśācha* or *Pechaka* ; the third, *Pīṭha*, is of 9 plots ; the fourth, *Mahāpīṭha*, is of 16 plots ; the fifth, *Upapīṭha*, is of 25 plots ; the sixth, *Ugra-pīṭha*, is of 36 plots ; the seventh, *Sthaṇḍila*, is of 49 plots ; the eighth, *Chaṇḍita*, is of 64 plots ; the ninth, *Parama-śāyika*, is of 81 plots ; the tenth, *Āsana*, is of 100 plots ; the eleventh, *Sthānīya*, is 121 plots ; the twelfth, *Deśya*, is of 144 plots ; the thirteenth, *Ubhaya-chaṇḍita*, is of 169 plots ; the fourteenth, *Bhadra*, is of 196 plots ; the fifteenth, *Mahāsana*, is of 225 plots ; the sixteenth, *Padma-garbha*, is of 256 plots ; the seventeenth, *Triyuta*, is of 289 plots ; the eighteenth, *Karṇāshṭaka*, is of 324 plots ; the nineteenth, *Gaṇita*, is of 369 plots ; the twentieth, *Sūrya-viśālaka*, is of 400 plots ; the twenty-first, *Susaṁhita*, is of 441 plots ; the twenty-second, *Supratikānta*, is of 484 plots ; the twenty-third, *Viśālaka*, is of 529 plots ; the twenty-fourth, *Vipra-garbha*, is of 526 plots ; the twenty-fifth, *Viveśa*, is of 625 plots ; the twenty-sixth, *Vipula-bhoga*, is of 676 plots ; the twenty-seventh, *Viprakānta*, is of 729 plots ; the twenty-eighth, *Viśālāksha*, is of 784 plots ; the twenty-ninth, *Vipra-bhakti*, is of 841 plots ; the thirtieth, *Viśveśa sāra*, is of 900 plots ; the thirty-first, *Iśvarakānta*, is of 961 plots ; and the thirty-second, *Chandrakānta*, is of 1,024 plots (*M.* VII, 2–50, *see also* 51—271).