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.c47.3947

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(6) Kṛitvā . . . ābihrāmāṁ muni-vasatiṁ . . . .svargga-sopānarūpām kaubera-chchhanda-bimbāṁ sphaṭika-maṁḍalā-bhāsa-gaurāṁ pratolīm । ‘Having made a gateway, charming (and) . . . the abode of Saints, (and) having the form of a staircase leading to heaven (and) resembling a (pearl-)necklace of the kind called Kauberachchanda (and) white with the adiance of pieces of crystalline gems.’ ‘That the word (pratolī) has the meaning in the present inscription of a gateway with a flight of steps seems to be shown by the comparison of the pratolī with a svarga-sopāna or flight of steps, or ladder, leading to heaven, and by its being described as white with the radiance of pieces of crystalline gems (in the stones of which it was constructed).’—(Bilsad stone pillar inscrip. of Kumaragupta, line 10, *C. I. I.*, Vol. III, F. G. I., no. 10, pp. 44, 45, 43, and note 1.)