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(14) ‘Properly speaking it is not temple (chaitya-gṛiha) but the dagaba inside it that is called a chaitya. In a secondary sense it is used by Jainas and Buddhists, however, to denote a temple containing a chaitya, and is also applied in Buddhist books to a sacred tree as well as to a stūpa.’