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53–55. It should be furnished with the carvings of crocodiles, and female Kinnaras but should be without any (other) carvings (and) lotuses, although all over decorated with flowers and various ornaments, the flowers here referring to the *makaranda* (a kind of jasmine) alone: such an arch is called the *Pushpa-toraṇa*.