A treatise on Indian architecture dating to the eleventh century CE and attributed to King Bhoja of Dhar, Madhya Pradesh. It is composed in poetic verses, detailing the theory and practice of Hindu temple architecture in north, west and south India. The manuscript was discovered in the twentieth century and the first edition published in 1924.
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