Prasada Mandana of Sutradhara Mandana
by Raghunath purushottam Kulkarni

The present book is the English translation of this treatise which is in Sanskrit.  It contains information on different levels of elevation like basement,wall, tower, finial and flag, of temples.  As Mandana himself states, most of the information is culled from the encyclopaedic treatise Aparajitaprccha written by Bhuvana-devacarya.

Treatise on Indian architecture written by the famous engineer Mandana. English trans., with original text,critical introd.