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Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v7.c47.2454

Mānasāra Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra-Śilpaśāstra; III. Mānasāra on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Mānasāra: Translation; V. Architecture of Mānasāra: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v7.c47.2454

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**TALPA(KA)**—‘A couch, bed, sofa, an upper storey, a room on the top of a house, a turret, a tower’ made of heavy and strong *udumbara* wood (*Taitt. Brā.*, i, 2, 6, 5), ‘with four feet and four frame pieces (ushyala) fashioned (moulded and carved) by tvashtar (carpenter) and embroidered and inlaid.’ Nuptial bedstead (*R.-V.*, vii, 55, 8; *A.-V.*, iv, 5, 3; v, 7, 12 for king and his wife; xiv, 2, 31, 41 bridal: *Taitt. Sam.*, vi, 2, 6, 4: *Taitt. Brā.*, ii, 2, 5, 3; *Panch. Brā.*, xxiii, 4, 2; xxv, 1, 10) Compare TĀLPYA (legitimate son born in nuptial bed, Guru-talpa (bed for preceptor). Base of the neck of a dome on the top of an edifice (*M.*, xviii, 170).

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