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.c47.4954

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(52) ‘That Singa-Rāja had the two lines of fortification, round this city built, and holding the office of paṭṭana-svāmī by order of the god Nāyinār, so that all the people could see, for the god’s tirumāna had maṇṭapas made before and behind the temple (hindaṇa-mundaṇa-bhāgada maṇṭapa), had a pond constructed called after Gopa Rāja the Gopasamudra, had a palace built for Gopa Raja to the west of that pond, and to the right of the god, Singa-Rājā's palace; and that he might at sunrise and at evening twilight bathe at both times, and have a room for domestic sacrifice, from the threshold of which he might look to the spire of Varada Rāja's temple . . . and at the eastern gopura which Kundapadannāyaka had built in front of the maṇṭapa facing the god (mukha-maṇṭapa).’—(*Ibid.*, no. 4; Roman Text, p. 187; Transl., p. 156.)