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.<-p>

The present volume contains the plates exclusively devoted to the illustrations of the text of all other volumes in the `Mansara<-i>` 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.<-p>