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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryGaṇyamāna (गण्यमान).—The comparative height of the component members of an architectural structure. In the sculptural measurement the similar height is called the तालमान (tālamāna).
Derivable forms: gaṇyamānam (गण्यमानम्).
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Ends with: Aganyamana.
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Vastu-shastra (1): Canons of Architecture (by D. N. Shukla)
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