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) v6.c41.s25.100

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‘The complex column, with double capital and volutes, rose between the four enormous pillars of the monumental Propylæa on the Persepolitan platform; it upheld the ceiling of the central hall of the great Palace of Xerxes, and formed the supports, both internally and externally, in the main porch of the hall of a hundred columns, as well as those of the hypostyle hall of Artaxerxes at Susa.’ In a note it is further stated that ‘until recently only slight fragments of the capitals... had been recovered; nevertheless the number seen by Coste was sufficiently large to enable him to write as follows: “The flutes of the shaft are cut to a fine edge, and the capitals... consist of four distinct sections.” Scores of shafts and chips of capitals were disengaged some ten years ago. In Plates (LXVII—LXIX) of the atlas published by the German Mission, entitled *Details of Columns*, will be found fragments of the bull-group, along with pillars adorned by volutes and the cylindrical form which intervenes between these and the pillar. Altogether they furnish all the elements requisite for a restoration of the column,’⁵ but not for a comparison with the Indian column.