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.c49.17

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**Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ganganatha Jha, M.A., D.LITT., LL.D., Vice-Chancellor, Allahabad University.**—These two books are the fruit of Dr. Acharya’s labour extending over several years and the learned Doctor deserves congratulations on having completed and—what is more—seeing through the Press, this monument of his industry and scholarship. The ideal that he set before himself is neatly expressed by the sentence appearing as a motto on the opening page—‘What the learned world demand of us in India is to be quite certain of our data, to place the monumental record before them exactly as it now exists, and to interpret it faithfully and literally.’ The Doctor has acted up to this ideal. There are many of us who have collected and presented before the scholars important data, but very few of us have succeeded in retaining the balance of mind needed for interpreting the data ‘faithfully and literally’; and Dr. Acharya appears to have been one of these few.