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(1) Mānasāra (chap. xxxv., named Śālā, 1-404) : In this chapter ‘śālā’ is used mostly in the sense of a house. Śālās imply both temples and residential buildings for the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas, the Vaiśyas and the Śūdras (lines 1-2). Their characteristic features as single buildings :