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³ Not all the measurements of the temple of the several types are detailed in each text. The proportions of the ‘Bṛhat Saṃhitā’ being based on the square of 8, are nearest to the ‘principles’ of the temple; the ‘Matsyapurāṇa’ where it deals with architecture, sums up subsequent practice. ⁴ The Nemī, the outer circumambulatory, provides for the buttresses, the Rathāṅga; their projection (nirgama) is given in proportionate measurement in other types of the Prāsāda (see Chart I). ⁵ Sikharas of this proportion or having even a greater height such as the Amṛteśvara Temple at Singhanapur (Cousens, ‘Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan’, Pl. XCII) are rare. In wooden temples this excessive height might have been normal.