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width so as to support the weight of the hill which in part rested on them. Layana, place of rest, is the name for rock cut temples. They have no Śreṇi, which means no superstructure with its cluster groups of similar shapes; they are without buttresses (niryūhaka), while a circumambulatory (bhrama) and windows (gavākṣa) should be carved in the rock ('Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra', LIX. 236-237)⁹⁰ in imitation of structural temples.