The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s9.67

v1.c9.s9.67

Amongst South Indian text books the ‘Mānasāra’ stands relatively nearest to Kāśyapa’s treatise which, being referred to in the ‘Tantrasamuccaya’, belongs to an age prior to the 15th century. The ‘Mānasāra’, moreover, frequently, though summarily, speaks of Buddha and Jina temples and images. This would indicate that these religions must have had adherents in S. India not very long before the compilation of the ‘Mānasāra’; it may be assigned to the Pāṇḍya age when high Vimānas were still erected and necessitated the detailed measurements given in the ‘Mānasāra’.