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9-13. The width of the aforesaid edifice being divided into twenty-eight parts, the width of the pinnacles (*kūṭa*) should be one part each, and the structure resembling the hall (*śālā*) in the middle twelve parts; the antechamber (*anuśālā*) should be three parts, and the chains (*hārā*) at it sides two parts each; the portico in the central region of the great hall (*mahāśālā*) should be made of six parts: this is the *Bhavana-kānta*: this should be constructed in the largest type of ten-storeyed buildings.