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palace ( sacca-damta-maya-pasaya ) which was asked to be made by king Damtavakka of Dartapura to fulfil the pregnancylonging of the queen.1
Mention of the siyaghara ( śātagrha ) or the cool-house of an emperor built by an efficient architect ( vaddhakirayaņa ) to suit all the seasons has been made. It was cool in summer and warm in winter and was unaffected by the dampness of the rainy season. 2 Such houses were sometimes built by the wealthy citizens also. This sitagļha of the NC. may be compared to the samudragsha or cool-summer-houses mentioned by Vātsyāyana, "which were surrounded by water, washed as it were by the sea and also rooms in the walls of which there were secret passages for water to circulate and take away the heat."'4
Houses and Buildings and Their Layout-Various types of houses and other buildings have been mentioned in the text. Each of these was styled according to its architectural style or nature of its use. The houses were usually called gļha, ghara5 or ägära, since they were made out of trees (agama).6 It shows that perhaps formerly only wooden houses were built, but frequent references to the baked bricks and strong walls7 indicate that other materials were also used. The Caussala ( catuśśala ) houses are frequently mentioned 8 which signifies the usual plan of the house-construction. The style of having apartments or rooms on four sides around the inner
1. NC. 4, p. 361. 2. वढिकीरयण-णिम्मियं चक्किणो सीयघरं भवति,वासातु गिवाय-पवातं, सीयकाले सोम्हं,
FATA FT_NA. 3, p. 44. 3. Ibid. 4. Kāmasūtra ( Sū. 17 ), pp. 283-84; Chakaldar, Social Life in Ancient
India, p. 154. 5. NO. 1, p. 89; NO. 2, pp. 131, 224. 6. "37 TAL" Ter, aiš i "TITI" qi-NG. 2, p. 131; also NC. 4, p. 388. 7. NC. 2, p. 439. 8. TISFETS ET QÈFAT_NA. 2, pp. 266, 333, 422; NC. 1, p. 89; Brh. Vr.
2, p. 403 and 3, p. 742.
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