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In some residential buildings the entrance door is made, not in the middle of the frontage, but on either side of the middle (line 17), although the general rule is to make the door in the middle of the (front wall, lines 6, etc.). But in temples and in case of kitchens in particular, the doors are generally made at the middle of the wall (line 35, *see also* Chap. xxxix, 140). For the easy upward passage (ūrdhva-gamana) of the kitchen smoke, they are furnished with the lattice (jāla, line 37).