The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s4.9

c14.s4.9

The author of the *Manuṣyālayachandrikā*¹¹ was an inhabitant of Kerala in South India. He acknowledges his debt to Nārāyaṇa's *Tantrasamuchchaya* (c. 1450). The first chapter deals with the examination of the soil, the second with the auspicious days, etc., the third with measurements, the fourth with classes of buildings and rooms. Out-houses, wells and tanks also have been discussed in the treatise which is entirely in verse.