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³ The word *chaitya*, like *stūpa*, means primarily a heap or tumulus, but it also means a place of sacrifice or religious worship, an altar—from Sanskrit *chitā*, a heap, an assemblage, etc. Properly speaking, therefore, *chaitya* caves ought perhaps to be called 'halls containing a *chaitya*,' or '*chaitya* halls,' and this latter term is consequently used wherever any ambiguity is likely to arise from the use of the simple term *chaitya*.