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Later *Silpa* texts like *Mānasāra* (Acharya, P.K. VII. pp. 298, 304, 380, 459, 499, 522 etc), recounts furniture articles and their prolific use in chapter XLIV. The words like *Siṃhāsana*, *Mañca*, *Mañcali*, *Pallaṅkāsana* etc., are referred to mean the furniture material. The *Manasara* mentions a throne marked with lion³ (Ed., Acharya, P.K. XLV. 204, 206). In fact, the *Manasara* enumerates ten kinds of thrones namely — *Padmāsana*, *Padmakeśara*, *Padma-bhadra*, *Śrī-bhadra*, *Śrī-viśāla*, *Bhadrāsana* *Padma-Bhandaka*, *Śrī-mukha*, *Vijaya* etc. Besides, there is another throne known as *Vajrāsana*.