Public Administration in Ancient India c20.19

c20.19

¹ Mānasāra, Ch. XI. Vide also Rām Rāz, Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus. Rām Rāz mentions many other books on Hindu Architecture besides the Mānasāra. The Mānasāra consists of about seventy chapters, and in it are described the measures used in architecture, sculpture, etc.; the different sites to be selected for building temples and houses; their mode of determining the different points of the compass; the several sorts of villages, towns, and cities, with directions for building them; the different parts of an edifice, its ornaments, pedestals, bases, pillars, entablatures; the various sorts of temples consisting of from one to twelve storeys high; the construction of mantapas, porticoes, gates, doorways, palaces, etc. Several MS. copies of this important work have been been found, and a Bengali scholar has now undertaken the work of editing and translating the book.