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In view of the classification and number (5) of the orders, their principal composing mouldings (8), and other details of similarity pointed out above, the ‘affinity,’ says Rām Rāz truly (p. 38), ‘between the columns of India and of Rome and Greece is so striking, that one would be apt to ascribe it to something more than mere chance.’¹