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If the country of Nāgara, like those of Drāviḍa and Vesara, be included in Southern India, in other words, if Northern India be excluded from the scope of the styles of buildings mentioned in records quoted above, the passage, mentioning the ten different types of buildings of the ten countries covering the whole of India, will have to be treated as what is called a spurious record, a term under which the conflicting ideas are reconciled by many a scholar. Let whatever be the boundaries of Nāgara. It is clear beyond doubt that the three styles of architecture have arisen from three geographical names, Nāgara, Vesara, and Drāviḍa. And there we have a parallel instance of similar divisions in the early Grecian architecture: