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VĀSTU-SASTRA
35. Someśvara,
3991. HTGIFTETE Mānasollāsa.
Substance, country-made paper. 134 x 54 inches. Folia, 30. Lines, 9 on a page. Character, Nāgara. Appearance, fair. Incomplete.
The present MS contains the third of the five sections of the work. The colophon in the present MS as well as in the one described in L. III. 1215, however, refers to this as the second chapter. The present section deals with royal enjoyments incidentally referring to housebuilding.
Editions of the first two and three sections have been published respectively in the GOS Series, No. 28 (Baroda, 1925) and the Mysore Sanskrit Series, No. 69 (Mysore, 1926).
36.
Višvakarman.
6356. faxan
RT 1 Višvakarmaprakāša.
Substance, country-made paper. 11 X 44 inches. Folia, 90. Lines, 10 per page. Extent in slokas, 2,000. Character, Nāgara. Date, Samvat 1920. Appearance, fair. Complete in 13 chapters.
Different editions of the work have been published under the title Viśvakarma prakāśa (Litho-Siddhavinayaka yantra, Benares; Venkatesvar Steam Machine Press. Bombay, 1922). Other MSS of the work are described in L. II. 552, IO. V. 3139. The colophons in the MS usually refer to the work as Vāstusāstra, only the last colophon mentioning the name Viśvakarma prakāśa which is attributed to Brahman. This is different from Visvakarmiyasilpa (L. II. 731). For summaries of the contents of both the works cf. Indian Architecture according to Mānasārasilpaśāstra by P. K. Acharya (pp. 96–9).
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