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“The Indian (pedestals and) bases are made more systematically, and afford by far a greater variety of proportions and ornaments than the Grecian and Roman. In the European architecture, the forms and dimensions of pedestals and bases are fixed by invariable rules, with respect to the orders in which they are employed, but in the Indian, the choice is left to the option of the artists.”
(Rām Rāz, “Ess. Arch. of Hind.” p. 39-40 and see Plate II).