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The height of the riding animals (vāhana) of the gods is divided into two kinds, utsava and kautuka (*see* details under these terms). The latter is stated to be half of the former, and it does not seem to bear any other independent signification. The former is compared with the height of the main idol, exactly in the same way as the idol is compared with the height of the worshipper (*see e.g.* *M.*, LXIV, 24–28; LV, 40–43, under UTSAVA).