Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v7.c47.6838

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Of the first one he says ‘The base of it is rectangular, about 3ʹ 4ʺ square by 4ʹ 5ʺ high . . . From this base there rises a sixteen-sided shaft, each of which is about 8½ʺ broad, where it starts from the base . . . The total length of which (the shaft) was thus about 39ʹ 3ʺ or 34ʹ 10ʺ above the base . . . The next part of this column, the lower part of the capital, . . . is a fluted bell, about 2ʹ 6ʺ high and 3ʹ 2ʺ in diameter, almost identical in design with the corresponding part of a small pillar from an old Gupta temple at Sanchi, drawn by General Cunningham (in the *Arch. Surv. Ind.*, Vol. x, plate xxii, no. 1 . . . ). The total length of this column, up to the top of the lion-capital, is about 44′ 5″, or forty feet above the ground, if it stood with the entire base buried. The square lion-capital must have surmounted by a statue or statues, of the same kind as that which stands on the summit of the column at Eran.’—(*See* above and *Arch. Surv. Ind.*, Vol. x, p. 81 and plate xxvi.)