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.c47.6787

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‘ The Mānastambhas, which are generally graceful, high and imposing, have to be distinguished from other Jaina pillars neither so tall as the former nor bearing any maṇḍapas on their tops. These latter are called Brahma-deva-pillars (*cf.* Brahma-kānta, in the *Mānasāra*) and appear to be usually set up in front of colossal statues. The Tyāgada-Brahma-deva pillar (figured on plate facing p. 33 of the Introduction to Mr. Rice’s Śrāvaṇa-Belgola inscriptions) is set up opposite to the collosal statue on the Doḍḍabeṭṭa hill at Śrāvaṇa-Belgola; the Kūge Brahma-deva pillar at the entrance into the bastis on the Chikkapeṭṭa hill of the same village, indicates perhaps the existence of the unfurnished colossus on that hill (*ibid.*, p. 29, note 1), and the colossi at Kārkala and Veṇūr have similar pillars in front of them, bearing an image of Brahma-deva on their tops (Government Epigraphist’s Annual Report for 1900–1901, paragraphs 6 and 7).’