Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v1.c6.s32.629

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“The upper ornaments (?entablature) of this column occupy two diameters, and the capital takes three-quarters of the diameter, which is to be divided into ten parts: two to be given to the abacus, which projects half a diameter, one to the strings of pearls, one to the fillet, four to the cymatia, and one to the circular cymbia. The ornaments under the capital are to be divided into sixteen parts: of which give two to the cavetto or collarino, one and a half to the cyma, four to the torus, which projects perpendicular to the plinth or three-quarters part of its height, one and a half to the lower cyma, three to the lower collarino, two to the astragal, which projects equal to its own height, and two to the third cyma and its fillet, below which a space equal to three diameters is taken up by strings of pearls, but which are omitted in some columns of a similar description." (Rām Rāz, p. 34).