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¹ In temples, the front doors are constructed just at the middle of the front wall so that a full view of the deity in the interior may be received by a visitor from the outside. But in residential buildings, such openness was not desired, owing to, perhaps, the eastern seclusion; and, therefore, the doors were constructed on either side of the middle line across the front.