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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
( 3 ) following is a list of worksascribed to him, and some of them are styled differently in Mss.
Devatāmūrti-prakaraña". Vastusāstra. Prāsādamaņdana.
Vastu-sāra. Rājavallabha Vāstuśāstra”. Vāstu-mañjari. Rūpamandana.
Apa-tattva. Vāstumaņdana. Mandana's treatise on architecture bears the titles
"Šilpa-śāstra’, Västu-śāstra', and also ‘Prāsāda-mandanaVastu-sāstra'.According to some scholars, it is possibly further called the 'Rajavallabha-maņdana' (or simply "Rājavallabha') or the "Sūtradhāra-maņdana'".
In the unique libraryle of the Sarvavidyānidhāna Kavindrācārya (17th C.) were stored some Mss. on art (architecture and sculpture), among which the following are worth noting-- freqTIEITT—2146 279984, 2849 ATEJASH, 2150 qrargh"577, 2151 AUTH, 2152 799 FTCT, 2153 alegriarca. This booklover Kavindrācārya was a Deccan Brahmin and a very learned man, the head of the Pandit community of Benares, of his time,
7. See T. Aufrecht : Catalogus Catalogorum Vol. I, pp. 730-31.
Also, Prasanna Kumar Acharya : Indian Architecture according to Mänasära-Silpaśastra. Oxford Univ. Pr., 1927. pp. 103-5.
8. First noticed by G. Bühler: Two Lists of Sanskrit Mss. in 2. D. M. G. Vol. 42, 538.
9. See Note 1 Supra. Edited by Pandit Rāmayatna Ojhā, Hindu Univ.
10. J. Eggeling and E. Windisch : Catalogue of Sanskrit mss. in the Library of the India Office. 3142, 1291 ; 3147, 2253.
11. P. K. Acharya : Op. cit., p. 102.
12. ratúran Kavindracharya list. Edited with Introduction by R. Anantakrishna Sastry with a Foreword by Dr. Ganganatha Jha, GOS. No. XVII, 1921. (Fat våfalfayta úrvatata ( 72ce) Arata a -adas
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