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The Door- Frame of the Garbhagļiha
357 APPR. prescribes rules pertaining to height (rise) of the shrine door on the basis of the measurement of the width of the temple (Nāgara type), The measurement of the breadth of the temple is based here on the Gaja*8 measurement. Accordingly a temple having the width of 1 to 4 Gajas has 16 angulas rise of the shrine door per gaja. Thereafter the increment of 3 angulas per gaja is prescribed for temples having breadth of 5 to 8 gajas and further increment of two angulas in the case of temples of 9 to 50 gajas in breadth. 4 9 48. ARPR CXXX, 8-9.
Gaja consists of 24 angulas. Angula is nearly equal to 8.1 c. m. so the Gaja will be approxinately of 2 meters. Further canons prescribe three measurements uttam, madhyam aud kanistha, for angula. Accordingly if it consists of 8 * Yava' (a unit for an angula) it is uttam, if cf 7 the angula is madhyama and if of 6 than it is kanistha. Consequently the Gaja will be also of three varieties.Uttama, Madhyama and Kanistha i. e. comprising 24 angalus of above mentioned three varieties ( APPR. XLI, 196 ). 49. It may be tabulated as follows: The breadth of
The rise or height of the Temple in Gajas,
door in angulas.
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Thenceforth the increase of two ángulas per Gaja is prescribed upto the temple having the breadth of 50 Gajas which will require 160 angulas as the height of the shrine-door.
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