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There is a compound word ‘kapota-pālikā’ or ‘kapota-pāli’ (dove-cot) in Sir William’s *Dict.*, p. 202, c. 3. Similarly the words, ‘kapota’ and ‘pālikā’ or ‘pāli’ occur together in the *Bṛihat-Saṁhitā* and (its commentary) Utpala quoted above. But they do not occur as one word in Winslow’s *Tamil Dict.*, in Viśvak and in Rām Rāz. In the twenty-eight instances in the *Mānasāra*, too, pointed out above (under KAPOTA), only the word ‘Kapota’ occurs. There is a different moulding called both ‘Pāli’ and ‘Pālikā’ in the *Mānasāra*. As regards the correctness of Dr. Kern’s rendering of the term by ‘dove-ridge,’ or of Colebrooke’s and Sir M. William’s by ‘dove-cot’ nothing can be stated definitely as the term [Figure: KATAKA ORNAMENT KATAKA.]