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(1) ' Sometimes a portico is made round the garbha-gṛiha (shrine and antarāla (corridor) together. The whole being closed on all sides but the front, in which are the doors for entrance, approached by the front portico, which is generally a peristyle, and it serves as the innermost court for pradakshiṇa (circumambulation).'