Manushyalaya Chandrika

Manushyalaya Chandrika is a sixteenth century CE treatise in Sanskrit dealing with domestic architecture.

The work is authored by Thirumangalath Neelakanthan Musath and is a summarization of the basic principles of domestic architecture then widely followed in that region of India now known as Kerala State.

[1] The popularity of the text as a basic reference of traditional Kerala architecture has continued even to modern times.

in the opening invocation of the treatise it can be safely surmised that the author of the work should have been a native of some place close to these temples.

[3] In the version given as an appendix to a thesis submitted to Mahatma Gandhi University in 1998, the work is presented as divided into seven chapters and has a total of 246 slokas.