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There is a compound word 'Kapota-pālikā' or 'Kapota-pālī' (dove-cot) in Sir. M. Williams's Dict. p. 202. c. 3. Similarly the two words, *kapota* and *pālikā* or *pālī* occur together in the Bṛihat-saṁhitā and (its commentary) Utpala quoted above. But they do not occur as one word in Winslow's *Tamil Dict.*, in Viśvak, and in Rām Rāz. In the twety-eight instances in the Mānasāra too, pointed out above (under Kapota), only the word 'Kapota' occurs. There is a different moulding called both 'Pālī' and 'Pālikā' in the Mānasāra. As regards the correctness of Dr. Kern's rendering of the term by ‘dove-ridge,’ or of Colebrooke’s and Sir M. Williams’s by ‘dove-cot’ nothing can be stated definitely as the term is used figuratively to indicate a moulding.