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The extensiveness of these buildings can be imagined not only from the colossal structures at Burobodur, Angkorvat, and other places, but also from the length of time devoted to getting a house completely built. Thus, it is stated that, ‘with reference to the work of a small *vihāra*, it may be given in charge (to an overseer) as a *navakamma* (new work) for a period of five or six years, that on an *aḍḍhayoga* for a period of seven or eight years, that on a large *vihāra* or a *pāsāda* for ten or twelve years.’² That the long periods were not idled away will be clear from the following details of houses gathered from the *Vinaya texts*.³