
This volume is the fifth in the 'Mansara' series - the treatise containing knowledge and experience in Town-planning, Architecture, Sculpture etc. of ancient India. The book is the outcome of years of studious research carried out by the Author to bring this vast, but almost forgotten, treasure-house within easy reach of all.
The present volume contains the plates exclusively devoted to the illustrations of the text of all other volumes in the 'Mansara' series. The volume contains carefully prepared drawings, drawn to scale, of plans, sections, elevations etc; pertaining to the choice of sites, temples, dwellings houses; structural parts such as foundations, basements, columns and entablature; components like niches, windows and doors; the designs of functional rooms, furniture etc.
Everyone interested in the Architecture of ancient India shall find this book authoritative on the subject. The book is highly useful especially to research scholars, architects, engineers, designers and conservators.
| nda sandi bruns ramniwas ed sharma komomo catherine simpson wynne | subhash chand milan kratochvil paul virilio h a alexander e a armstrong |