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**KSHEPAṆA**—*Lit.* projection. A drip-moulding; the door-frame, a moulding above the plinth in pedestal, generally placed between a dado and cyma, a fillet and cyma, or a petal and fillet. Etymologically it would indicate a moulding like a spout to throw off water, and in this office it would resemble the corona (kapota), i.e. the square projection having a broad vertical face and the soffit or under-portion recessed so as to form a drip which prevents water from running down the building. In bases it would resemble a cornice (*cf.* *M.*, xiv, 370) which is used as the term for any crowning projection. In this sense it is also found in the western architecture (*cf.* Fletcher, *Hist. of Arch.*, figs. 191, 192, 197, 198). In Indian architecture it also implies a door-frame (*M.*, xxxix, 105–110).