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“Concerning the proportions of columns,” says Rām Rāz (page 38), “the second sort of column in the Hindu architecture may be compared with the Tuscan, the third with the Doric, the fourth with the Ionic, and the fifth with the Corinthian or Composite pillar.” He further adds that “there are other columns in the Indian architecture, not only one diameter lower than the Tuscan, but one to two diameters higher than the Composite.” The same is also the case with the European columns. “The orders and their several characters and qualities,” says Gwilt (2538), “do not merely appear in the fixed species of columns into which they have been subdivided, but are distributed throughout the edifices to which they are applied.”