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**KAPOTA-PĀLIKĀ(-PĀLI)**—A pigeon-house, an aviary, ‘properly dove-ridge, dove-list, may be rendered by crown-work, fillet, gable-edge, and even by cornice. A water-spout used at the roof to drain off water having the shape of pigeon’s head or beak. In Tamil, *kapotakam* is explained as a moulding in masonry: see Winslow’s *Tam. Dict.* i. v.’ Then Dr. Kern quotes Rām Rāz’s passage noticed under ‘Kapota’ and adds ‘the same author (Rām Rāz) notices (p. 51) that the spout may be made to spring from the head of a lion, etc.’