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.c47.7283
Mānasāra Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra-Śilpaśāstra; III. Mānasāra on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Mānasāra: Translation; V. Architecture of Mānasāra: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v7.c47.7283
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‘For this reason some have sought its origin not in the religious symbolism of Egypt, but in the pattern of the heavens. In the sky only the Pole Star is stable and constant. All else moves round it. So the fixed, the reliable, the *dhruva* of the old Indian astronomers, became an assurance that there was the seat of a power kindly to man. Anyhow we must believe that India has given the larger part of the associations that have always gone with the Svastika, though it might come as a shock to some good Germans to be told that they are in the same line of thought as Hindus and Buddhists who begin an important piece of work with “svasti” and welcome a guest with “svastu” “be it well”.’