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(-MAṆḌAPA, -VEŚMA, -ŚĀLĀ)—The playhouse, theatre, music hall, dancing pavilion, used for enacting a drama (abhinaya), holding a music performance (saṅgīta) or dancing show (nṛitta). It is built in connexion with a templc, a palace, and independently for the use of general public in towns, countryside and mountain valley. It is built in various shapes—circular (vṛitta) semi-circular (vikṛishṭa), quadrangular (chaturaśra), and triangular (tryaśra). Abhinava-gupta, the commentator of *Bharata-Nāṭya-śāstra* refers to some eighteen varieties with reference to shape and size.