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Dr. Kern translates ‘kaṭi’ by ‘the flight of steps’ (J. R. A. S. N. S. vol. VI, p. 318); but in this sense the word never occurs in dictionaries or literature; nor does this rendering suit the context here, first, because the description concerns a single storeyed building, where the flight of steps, if there be any at the entrance, would not be usually ⅓ of the height of the whole building; secondly, the measures of the flight of steps mostly in buildings of more than one storey are never considered in any architectural treatises as being dependent on the height of the building or the storey.