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In modern architectural treatises arches are considered in three aspects, namely, (i) form, (ii) the mode in which their parts are constructed, and (iii) the thrust they exert.
In respect of their form arches are either straight, triangular, semi-circular or circular. The Mānasāra adds another form called bow-shape which is apparently a little wider than the semi-circle. "The investigation of the equilibrium of arches" as truly said by Mr. Gwilt (Encycl. Article 1353), "by the laws of statics does not appear to have at all entered into the