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¹ *Trigriha* seems to imply residential houses with three courts and court-yards, while *Vimāna* would mean huge temples with five courts and *Maṇḍapa* would refer to humbler buildings, both religious and residential, with a single court-yard (see the writer's *Indian Architecture*, pages 51-52, 47, 48, 53-54, and also his *Dictionary of Hindu Architecture* under these terms). In the *Mṛich-chhakaṭika* (act IV) a palace possessing eight court-yards is described in detail, but *tridhātu-śaraṇam* is mentioned as a three-storeyed building in the *Rigveda* (see *Indian Architecture*, pages 32, 6).
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- Mṛcchakaṭika — Śūdraka, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit