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The *chaitya*³ is a more general term than *stūpa*, and may be applied to 'any building of the nature of a religious monument, but more correctly to the second division of *stūpas*, or those commemorative of acts, miracles, etc., or not funerary.⁴ But it has further been restricted so as to correspond with the churches of the Christian religion; their plans, the position of the altar or relic casket, the aisles, and other peculiarities are the same in both, and their uses are identical in so far as the ritual forms of the one religion correspond to those of the other.'⁵