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(1) ‘It is often confounded with the moulding called “vājana” especially in pedestals and bases as it appears to be of the same form to be used in the same situation, and to have the same height and projection with the latter, but when employed in architraves and friezes its height and projection increases considerably.’—(Rām Rāz, *Ess. Arch. Hind.*, p. 25.)