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CHAPTER 361
ARCHITECTURE amala-sdra or åmalaka (fig. XXXVI, p. 508) and kalata (fig. XXXVII, p. 508), in which karna-wekhas, pratikarnas or the uparathas and the urt-órrigas can also be seen. The amalaka comprises the gata, and aka, candrika and amala-sárika. Kalaša is a term applied generally to the summit of a tower. Its component parts are the gala, andaka, karnika and bijapuraka. The Suka-näsa or śuka-nasika
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FIG. XXXII. Pitha. (After Bhagwandas Jain.) 1. grása paffi; 2, kevala; 3, antara.palra;
4, karna; 5, jadya-kumbha; 6 to 8, bhini
is a part of the dome, looking like the parrot's beak. The dhvaja, the banner or flag with danda, the staff, should be put at the top of the Sikhara (fig. XXXVIII, p. 508).
The dvara, door, should in width be half its height which may vary from sixteen angulas to seven hastas. On the door-frame may be carved Tirthankaras, pratikára-couple, madanikas, etc., at their appropriate places (fig. XXXIX, p. 509). The main entrance of a temple under repair should be neither shifted nor altered.
The jagati is a moulding of the pitha or base. Or, to define otherwise, all the area covered by the temple as such is jagati (cf. fig. XXXI). It is actually the jagati that proportions the plan of the präsåda or the main sanctuary and all the component parts of the temple. Seen as the surface of the picha, the jagati must be walled along with a gate in each direction.
