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(15) "In the pleasant Nāgara-khaṇḍa is the agrahāra which is jewel mirror to the earth, the beautiful Kuppaṭūr, with its splendid temples, its golden towers, its lofty mansions, its streets of shops, its interior surrounded with a moat, its..........., and the houses of dancing girls,—how beautiful to the eyes was Kuppaṭūr. It surpassed Alakāpura, Amarāvatī and Bhogavatī. Within that village, vying with Kailāśa, stood the temple of Koṭinātha, built by Viśvakarmmā and carved with complete devotion, planned in perfect accordance with the many rules of architecture, and freely decorated with *drāviḍa*, *bhumija* and *nāgara*.” “These and bhadropeta appear to be technical terms of the Śilpa-śāstra or science of architecture.” Mr. Rice. (They are evidently the three styles of architecture called the Drāviḍa, Vesara and Nāgara in the Mānasāra and elsewhere). (Ep. Carnat. vol. VIII. part I, Sorab Taluq, no. 275, Roman text, p. 92, line 9 from bottom upwards, Transl. p. 46, note 1).