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¹⁵ The following names of the eighteen Preceptors are associated with extant treatises: Atri: ‘Samūrtārcanādhikaraṇa’ or ‘Ātreya Tantra’. Viśvakarman: ‘Viśvakarmaprakāśa’; cf. also M.S. (RASB. No. 7845); ‘Vāstuprakaraṇam’ (Viśvabharati Library, Shantiniketan; cf. Ph. N. Bose, ‘Śilpa Śāstram’, Punjab Oriental Series, vol. XVII; introduction). Cf also Acharya, ‘Dictionary’, s.v.—‘Aparājitapṛabhā’, Ms., RASB. III. I. 63. Maya: ‘Mayamata’, etc. cf Acharya, op. cit. Nārada: ‘Vāstuvidhāna’, ‘Nāradaśilpaśāstra’ (Adyar, IX. J. 33). Śukra: ‘Śukranītisāra’. The names moreover of the following preceptors out of the eighteen names in the ‘Matsyapurāṇa’ are referred to in extant Vāstuśāstras as authorities on which the respective treatises are based: Bhṛgu: ‘Hayaśīrṣapañcarātra’, I. 3-4. Atri (Ātreya): ‘Agni Purāṇa’; ‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’, Commentary.