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19–23. The width of the largest of the (eleven-storeyed) edifices being divided into twenty-one parts, the pinnacles (*kūṭa*) should be made of two parts each, and the chains (*hārā*) also of two parts each; between the two chains (*hārā*) the ante-chamber (*anuśālā*) should be five parts; in the centre of that the experienced (architect) should make the portico (*bhadra*) of one-third of that; the great hall (*mahāśālā*) should be made of nine parts, and the portico (*bhadra*) in the centre of five parts; in the centre of that the portico hall (*bhadra-śālā*) should be made of four parts: this should be the *Vajra-kānta*.