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Atri is stated to have been “ thrown into a machine room with a hundred doors, where he was roasted.”⁷ Vasiṣṭha desired to have “ a three-storeyed dwelling” (*tri-dhātu-śaraṇam*)⁸. Mention is made of a sovereign “ who, exercising no oppression, sits down in this substantial and elegant hall built with a thousand pillars”, and of residential houses with such pillars as are said to be “ vast, compre-hensive, and thousand-doored.”¹⁰ Mitra and Varuṇa are represented as occupying a great palace with a thousand pillars and a thousand gates.¹¹ Muir is quite reasonable when he comments on this by saying that “ this is but an exaggerated de cription of a royal residence such as the poet had seen.”¹