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‘I have not been able to find purato-bhadra in the *Kośas* to which I have access, but sarvato-bhadra is described as a kind of house (?) with four doors facing the four quarters (here refers to Ram Raz’s *Essay on Architecture of the Hindus*, 1834, p. 43; here a *village* called sarvato-bhadra is described not a *house* of the same name). From this I infer that a purato-bhadra was a building with only one door in front.’—Mr. Hira Lal.