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Mānasāra Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra-Śilpaśāstra; III. Mānasāra on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Mānasāra: Translation; V. Architecture of Mānasāra: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v4.c30.s4.4
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4-8. The width of the eleventh-storey of the edifice being divided into nineteen parts, the pinnacles (*kūṭa*) should be built of two parts each, and the great hall (*mahāśālā*) of nine parts; the ante-chambers (*anu-śālā*) should be four parts each, and the chains (*hārā*) two parts each; the portico-hall (*bhadra-śālā*) in the centre of the great hall (*mahāśālā*) should be five parts; and it should be decorated with all kinds of ornaments: this is called the *śambhu-kānta*.