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KAṆṬHA—Also called Gala, Grīva, Kandhara, meaning literally the neck or throat. This is a quadrangular moulding, sometimes square and sometimes rectangular. “When employed in pedestals, (see the lists of mouldings under *Upapīṭha*), it is made very high and it resembles the *dado* (or the portion of a pedestal between its base and cornice, also applied to the lower portions of the walls). But everywhere else it serves as a neutral member from which the projection of the rest of the mouldings are generally measured.” (Rām Rāz, Ess. arch. Hind. p. 25). The neck of a column (Suprabhedāgama, XXXI. 58, see under *Stambha*).
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- Suprabhedāgama — Sanskrit