Umbrella
Umbrellas (chatram) are made by attaching strings of white flowers to thin wooden rods and decorating a wooden handle with golden juhi flowers.
Bed
A pillow is made by joining campaka and asoka flowers and a huge quantity of mallika flowers[1]. A wide mattress is made of strings of navamallika flowers[2].
Awning
The ulloca[3] is prepared by making a lattice-like design with strings of variegated fresh mallika flowers and attaching them to petals of ketaki flowers. The ulloca is further beautified by decoration with additional varieties of colourful flowers.
Candratapah
When the walls of an awning are made of radiant strings of pearl-like sindhuvara flowers and garlands made of freshly blooming lotus flowers hang down from its middle, it is called a candratapa.
Huts
Many kinds of huts can be constructed by using various flowers to decorate four pillars made of reeds, placing the pillars in the four corners, and decorating all the sides with strings of various kinds of flowers.
[1] Cameli flower
[2] Tender cameli flowers
[3] It’s a type of candratapa, see next item
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