The Manasara tradition — Shilpa and vastu compilers; authorship not individual
Date disputed; the text is a compilation · disputed · disputed
No individual author is established; the tradition is composite
Unknown or disputed.
Passage not yet recorded.
Design, technology and engineering · CBSE · IGCSE · IB — Measurement and proportion, materials, foundations, structures, town planning, water works, and the machines (yantra) chapters.
Engineering and architecture — Structural proportion, temple and civil construction, hydraulic works, metallurgy of large castings, mechanical devices.
Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.