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Its commentator, Utpala, criticises the omission of circular, hexagonal, octagonal, decagonal and sixteen-sided plans of which, as he corroborates, mention is made in the *Brihat-saṁhitā* also (see the writer's *Indian Architecture* referred to above); therefore, he supplies, from a *Bharatimuni* and other clothes, twisted hair, a diadem, a sacred thread and an outer garment, adorned with earrings, possessing eight ears and four necks, holding a water-pot and a rosary in the two left hands, and the foreparts or hind unnamed authorities, the following details of the triangular and the circular plans:—

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Bṛhatsaṃhitā — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit