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"Having caused (a temple having) a flat roof to be made, for the sake of increasing the religious merit of . . . . . (and) having installed the feet of (the god) Anantasvāmin"........ .
"Vaḍabhi (also valabhī, see above) is explained as meaning the wooden frame of a roof; a flat roof, house-top, top-room, turret, top-floor, balcony; any temporary erection on the top of a palace; an awning, a tent; but it seems to refer to a building here, and to denote a flat-roofed temple."
(Gadhwa stone Inscrip. line 2, C. I. I. vol. III. F. G. I. no. 66, p. 268, note 9).