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The *maṇḍapa* (or pavilion) is ‘usually a rectangular building, containing a statue of Buddha. In the Vāt Si Jum at Sukhodaya, it measured 57 feet wide by 70 feet deep, and sheltered an immense statue of Buddha, nearly 50 feet high, which was constructed in brick, coated with stucco and gilded. The walls of the *maṇḍapa* were also built in brick, and they carried a lofty roof or tower of the same material; at a height of 32 feet from the ground the brick courses commenced to project one in front of the other, till they met at the top, thus forming in section an inverted pyramid.’²