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The object of this article is, however, to show by illustrations the denotation of the term 'Prāsāda.' And before drawing any conclusion, we shall examine briefly a few more literary quotations from works which are not architectural and where the term occurs quite incidentally, as well as from the archaeological records and the Buddhist canonical texts, where too the term is used casually.