Studies in Indian Art c14.s5.18

c14.s5.18

Thakkura Pheru wrote also another book entitled the *Prāsāda-maṇḍana* which awaits publication. We have also the *Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra* of Bhojadeva (11th century) containing an exceptionally rich stock of architectural terminology and minute details of buildings together with their several parts as the *Maṇḍapa*, *Jagatī*, etc. The *Mānasollāsa* written by King Someśvara of the Western Chālukya dynasty of Kalyāṇī (c. 1124-1138) seems to preserve the officially accepted canons of architecture, sculpture and painting in the Chālukyan period. It is extremely important that these texts should be studied with reference to existing monuments and their technical terms explained and illustrated by actual examples found in them.