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CHAITYA (CHAITYĀLAYA)—Primarily a heap or tumulus, implies also a place of sacrifice or religious worship, an altar, derived from ‘chitā’, a heap, an assemblage, etc.; a monumental tomb, a sanctuary, a monastery, a shrine, a temple, the church-like Buddhist assembly halls. ‘All structures of the nature of sanctuaries are chaityas, so that sacred trees, statues, religious inscriptions and sacred places come also under this general name.’