मानसार शिल्पशास्त्र (प्रसन्ना कुमार आचार्य - प्राचीन भारतीय स्थापत्य, नगर-नियोजन व मूर्ति-शिल्प महाकोश)

6 MĀNASĀRA
For similar parallel passages from the Mahābhārata, Vāstuvidyā,
Śilpadīpaka, etc., describing the qualifications of स्थपति, वर्धकि and
सूत्रग्राहिन्, see the writer's Dictionary under Sthapati. See also the
writer's translation of the Text.
35. This line seems to be quite uncalled for here and has been
omitted by all Mss. except I. It does not seem permissible, however,
to leave it out of the text. It is, therefore, kept, and by a small emenda-
tion, as suggested within brackets, it can be explained in a way.
36. (1) I. J. A. F. लोके, the other reading within brakets is
suggested by other Mss. but the general obscurity of the line is not
removed thereby. (2) J. कुरु for गुरुम् ।
38. J. विफलं । The construction of this line as well as the preceding
three lines, and the one following, is grammatically untenable ; but the
general sense of these lines is, however, clear to some extent.
39. For शिल्पीनां see note under line 1 above. मानोपकरण without
any case ending is used for मानोपकरणम्, and would illustrate the
barbarous nature of the text.
40. (1) A. J. प्रेक्ष्य, F. प्रेक्ष्यो, B. प्रेक्ष्य । The word उद्वीक्ष्य, when it has
been combined with नयन, bearing no case ending, must be taken as an
adj. qualifying परमाणु ; it would be meaningless if it be read as a gerund
in ल्यप् form. It must, therefore, be emended either to वीक्ष्यः or वीक्ष्यम्
according to the gender of परमाणु । I. uses it in the masculine and
A. F. J. take it in the feminine. It is taken here in the neuter, and it
thus conforms to the neuter forms तत् and उदाहृतम्, this necessitates
the reading उद्वीक्ष्यं । (2) A. F. J. उदाहृता, I. उदाहृत ।
41. (1) J. षड्गुणितस्तत्र. More than a dozen authorities will be
found quoted in the writer's Dictionary under Aṅgula; it is always
eight times, not six. It is not clear how and wherefrom this reading
is taken by this Ms.
(2) A. F. J. स्मृतः, but the other adj. गुणितं has been left in the
neuter singular. That such errors are very frequent in the text will
be noticed in the following lines also.