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Some of the eight mouldings of the Indian order can be identified, with a reasonable certainty, with the corresponding mouldings of the Græco-Roman order. *Padma*, for instance, implies lotus (petal), and cyma also suggests the same thing. *Uttaroshṭha*, literally the lower lip, and the cavetto, mouth or hollow are apparently the same. *Hāra*, meaning chain, seems to imply the same object as the torus, bead or astragal. *Ghaṭa* means a pot; it may correspond to the ogée, talon or reversed cyma. *Vāhana* is that which supports anything, and the abacus also serves the same purpose; so they may correspond to each other. *Tulā* and *upa-tulā* otherwise called *vājana* and *uttara* seem to correspond to the fillet, listel or annulet.
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- Matsyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Mānasāra — Sanskrit