The Hindu Temple v1.c8.s2.14

v1.c8.s2.14

‘Shrines’ (koṣṭhaka ; apartment, separate chamber or place) of Aparājita, Apratihata, Jayanta, Vaijayanta, Śiva, Vaiśravaṇa, and the Aśvins in a fort, and the house (gṛha) of the goddess Madirā, and “koṣṭhaka-ālayas” for the Vāstudevatās are spoken of in Kauṭilya’s ‘Arthaśāstra’, II. iv. (56) which, according to A. B. Keith seems to belong to the fourth century A.D. (‘The Age of Arthaśāstra’, ‘B.C. Law Volume’, p. 490).