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*Cūlās* : Several houses in the Indus Valley settlement of Kalibangan had both underground and above-ground mud hearths, the latter with a comfortable bridged side-opening for feeding fuel (Ghurye, 1979, pp. 372-380). *Cūlās* with knobs, both of round and square shapes, and with one to three mouths, have been unearthed in sites at Ahar, Navdatoli and Jorwe dated 1500-1000 BC (Sankalia, 1977, pp. 100-124) and in Atranjikhera dated 600 BC (Ghurye, 1979, p.400). One of the Ajanta frescoes depicts a kitchen with knobbed *cūlās* (Yazdani 1952, pp, 58, 104), and they persist in India to this day.