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The chapter on ‘Single-storey buildings’ (XIX) opens with further classifications of buildings under *jāti*, *chhanda*, *vikalpa*, and *ābhāsa* based on the length of the cubit, which is taken as the unit of measure; under *sthānaka*, *āsana*, and *śayana*, otherwise called *saṁchita*, *asaṁchita*, and *apasaṁchita* based both on the standard of measure, which may be respectively height, breadth and length, and on the erect, sitting, and recumbent postures of the idols when the buildings happen to be temples; lastly, under masculine, feminine, and neuter, based on the equiangular, rectangular, and circular forms, as also on the sex of the main deity to be installed when the building is used as a temple.