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Whatever be the reasons of these affinities, chance or influence, some of the eight mouldings of an Indian order may be identified with an amount of certainty with the corresponding mouldings of the Greco-Roman order. Padma means lotus and it is same as cyma. Uttaroshṭha, literally lower lip, and cavetto, mouth or hollow, are apparently the same.