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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.’