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PREFACE
India recommended, and the Government of the United Provinces offered me a post in the Indian Educational Service at Muir Central College, Allahabad. Sir Claude F. de la Fosse, the then Director of Public Instruction and the first Vice-Chancellor of the reorganized Allahabad University, took up the matter with friendly sympathy and scholarly interest and induced the great educationist Governor, Sir Harcourt Butler, to sanction the publication on behalf of the Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh through the Oxford University Press.
Description of the Manuscripts The manuscripts which have been used in preparing the text of this First Edition of the Mūnasūra are the following: - (A) This belongs to the Library of the India Office (B.482).
It is written in Devanāgari script on modern paper 9" by 71". It contains 100 folios, each page of which has invariably 21 lines, except the last page which has only 1 line. Each line is half a sloka. The slokas are inaccurately numbered from the beginning to the end. The writing seems to be by one and the same hand. The name of the writer is not known. The colophons are written in red ink. The manuscript gives up the Manastira at folio 78b. line 16, the middle of Chapter XVIII (Vimana-lakshana), without any colophon. The remaining 22 folios, apparently belonging to another work, are retained in Appendix F. This portion has two colophons-folio 93a, iti Sūkshma-śāstre Kāmakoshta-paçalah ; folio 95b, iti Padma-samhitayam Raurava-bhede Kūma-kosha-lakshana-vidhiḥ patalaḥ. On
page 101 it breaks off abruptly at the middle of line 1. (B) This has been noticed by Aufrecht in the Catalogues Cata
logorum, part III, page 97. It belongs to the Oriental Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. It is written on paper 12" by 81". The first part, to folio 88, is a
| SR No. | 032595 |
| Book Title | Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Prasanna Kumar Acharya |
| Publisher | Oriental Books Reprint Corporation |
| Publication Year | 1979 |
| Total Pages | 860 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| Classification | Interfaith |
| File Size | 36 MB |