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‘Gandha-kuṭī’ is literally a ‘chamber of perfume,’ an epithet applied to Buddha temples. The large temple at Buddha Gayā is called, in the inscriptions, ‘Mahā-gandha-kuṭī-prāsāda’ (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. IX, pp. 142–143) and the room in which Buddha lived in Jetavana at Śrāvasti was also known by this name (Cunningham's *Bharhut Stūpa*, Plate xxxviii, and page 133, no. 22).