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.c48.13

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There is yet another difficulty, perhaps the most irritating one, of consulting and referring to this extensive work comprising approximately 12,000 pages. Many of the readers for whose service this encyclopaedia is made are not expected to be familiar with the various South Indian scripts. It is for this reason, and also for sparing readers the trouble of confusing pagings, that I have referred to the Roman text only. But neither the Roman text nor the translation, even of the largest inscriptions covering sometimes 10 pages of 40 lines to a page (*cf.* Vol. v, part I, pp. 362, 364, 530, etc.), has been numbered by verses, lines, or paragraphs. Consequently, no one convenient method could be followed in referring to a particular passage in the Roman text and in the corresponding translation. I might have counted from the beginning of the inscription the lines in both the places (which I have actually done in referring to the smaller inscriptions), but that would not save trouble to readers, as they would themselves be required to count, say, 400 lines twice, once in the text and secondly in the translation. In such cases my references to a particular passage has been given thus: *Ep. Carnat.*, Vol. v, part I,—Channaraga-pattana Taluq no. . . . , Roman text or Translation, p. . . . , line . . . (of that particular page, and not from the beginning of the inscription), sometimes from the bottom upwards, stated distinctly in so many words (e.g. line 2 from bottom upwards, instead of saying line 43, i.e. from the top downwards); occasionally it appeared more convenient to say p. 43, para. 7, line 9, instead of counting all the lines from the top or bottom of the page.