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"We are told several times of a building of seven storeys in height."¹ Professor Rhys Davids seems to be of the opinion that these buildings must have some connection with the seven-storeyed Ziggarats of Chaldæa. "But in India the use to which such seven-storeyed palaces were put was entirely private, and had nothing to do with any worship of the stars." Still he would add that "in this case also the Indians were borrowers of an idea."