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Manasara
The Mānasāra, also known as Manasa or Manasara Shilpa Shastra, is an ancient Sanskrit treatise on Indian architecture and design.[4] Organized into 70 adhyayas (chapters) and 10,000 shlokas (verses),[5] it is one of many Hindu texts on Shilpa Shastra – science of arts and crafts – that once existed in 1st-millennium CE.[6] The Manasara is among the few on Ancient Indian architecture whose complete manuscripts have survived into the modern age. It is a treatise that provides detailed guidelines on the building of Hindu temples, sculptures, houses, gardens, water tanks, laying out of towns and other structures.[4][6]
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- ^ a b PK Acharya (2011). N. C. Panda (ed.). Architecture of Mānasāra: Text with English Translation and Critical Notes. Bharatiya Kala Prakashan (original publication: 1934 by Oxford University Press). pp. 1–7.
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