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- 151 - height will be equal to the length of the wall. The Sikhara should have double the height of the wall and the Mukhamandapa shall be measured quarter of the height of Sikhara and shall be in the front. The eighth part of the adytum should be set apart for opening exists, for litters etc. The Agni Purana refers to the construction of the curvilinear Sikhara Dr. Stella Aramrisch observes - by means of a division in geometrical progression by four-fold division (caturgunasutra). Dr. Kraurisch says, "this particular method which is indicated here (Chapter 42, vv 15-17) underlies the process by which the batter of the curved outline of this type of Sikhara is determined. The Agni Purana passage speaks only of the four sutras, which are to be separately drawn from the base of the Sikhara up to the other end, the Skandha for the 'purpose of the Sikhara' ("Sikharartham hi sutrani catv盲ri vinipatayet"). These vertical parallels are intersected at certain regular intervals by horisontals of which only one is given in the Agni Purana at the height where the Sukan膩 sa is to the and. There a lion's figure should be carved. In the Agni Purana, its position marked the middle of the Sikhara. A lion's figure carved in the round, juts out from above the Sukan膩sa is found on the temples in Orissa. *57 66 58 Further general plan is described in Agni Purana
In this plan, it is said that a square plot of ground (Asetra)
should be divided into four equal rectangular divisions. The
breadth of the walls should occupy a quarter part of the