Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.37

c9.37

The palace was surrounded by an outer wall (*Pākāra*), having a main gate or perhaps four gates. The outer gate house (*Bahir dvāra Koṭṭhaka*) lay at some distance from the actual palace and sometimes the guests were received at the outer gate. In later literature this was also known as *Bahirdvāraśālā* or *Alinda*, beautified with paintings and designs as we read in the *Divyāvadāna* about a *Dvāra-Koṣṭhaka* painted with *Bhava-chakra*.