Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c56.9

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—the references to which in the particular works or inscriptions have been ably worked out by Dr. Kramrisch, in her Hindu Temple (page 138). Perhaps this list has got a hoary tradition behind it, and the tradition must not die. It is perhaps with this outlook of Indian culture that the author of the S.S., though denoting temple, the house of God only by a single term Prāsāda and Prāsāda alone, has in its 18th Chapter, “On the Nagarādi-Sañjñā”—glossary on the towns and houses, etc , has kept this tradition afloat and says :—