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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.c47.6665

Mānasāra Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra-Śilpaśāstra; III. Mānasāra on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Mānasāra: Translation; V. Architecture of Mānasāra: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v7.c47.6665

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(14) The *Chullavagga* (vv. II, 6; VI, 3, 3) and the *Mahāsudassana-sutta* (I, 59) have referred to stairs of three kinds, namely, brick stairs, stone stairs, and wooden stairs. All these are furnished with balustrades (ālam-bana-bāhu). Each of these had posts or banisters (thambā), cross-bars (sūchiyo) let into these banisters, and a head-line (uṇhisam) running along the top of the banisters.—(Compare Rhys Davids' *Buddhist Suttas*, p. 262, and the writer's *Indian Architecture*, p. 13.)

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