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detail in the writer’s *Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture* and need not be repeated here. Only the conclusions, again, may be briefly referred to. The measures of the mouldings of twelve pedestals¹ classified under three heads, and of some sixty-four bases² under nineteen heads, have been given. Shafts are primarily divided into five orders, but there is a great variety described under the technical names, of which a long list has been given above. The capitals, too, which have drawn the attention of the archaeologists rather disproportionately, have been described under several types, none of which appears to have much resemblance with the Persian ones. Lastly, the entablature have been described under eight classes.³