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like wise the threshold.” Śākhā-dvaye'pi kāryaṁ sārdhaṁ tat syād udumbarayoḥ—“the thickness of the two side frames of a door is as many digits (aṅgulas) as the altitude numbers cubits, one and a half that measure gives the thickness of the threshold and upper timber.”
(Bṛihat-saṁhitā, LIII. 26; LVI. 13, Kern, J. R. A. S., (N. S.), vol. VI. pp. 284, 318).

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Bṛhatsaṃhitā — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit