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The religious merits acquired by building temples (vv. 1–2); suitable sites—in the garden, wood, banks of rivers (seas), tanks (vv. 3–8); ground (v. 9); general plan (v. 10); situation of doors (v. 10); comparative measures of length, breadth, and height (v. 11), of the adytum (*garbha*, v. 12), of the doors and their different parts (vv. 12–14); carvings on the door (v. 15); comparative measures of the idol, pedestal, and door (v. 16); the heights of storeys (v. 29–30).