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A column with four sides equally rectangular (*lit.* of four equal corners) is called Ruchaka (=beautiful); one with such eight sides is called Vajra; one with such sixteen sides is called Dvi-Vajra: one with such thirty-two sides at the middle (i.e., by the shaft) is called Pralīnaka; and a round one is called Vṛitta.