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¹ *Chullavagga* VI. 2 2, वेदिका वातपानं which according to Buddhaghosha means चेतिये वेदिकासदिसं, of which वेदिका has been explained by Rhys Davids in his note on *Mahā-Sudassana Sutta*, 1. 60, (see R D's. *Buddhist Suttas*, page 262) जालवातपानं नाम जालकबद्धं, cf which जाल literally means 'net' but corresponds to lattice. R D. advises to compare Anglo-Indian 'jalousie' (page 162). सालक वातपानं नाम थम्भक वातपानं which "possibly means with slips of wood arranged horizontally as in our Venetian blinds" (page 163). In spite of all these the learned Orientalists, Rhys Davids and Oldenberg, would say that "There were, of course, no windows in our modern sense, but only spaces left in the wall to admit light and air, and covered by lattices of three kinds" (note on Ibid. VIII 2. 2, Translation, page 279).