Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.61

c4.61

The several mouldings which enter into the composition of pedestals and bases are, 1. *upána*, 2. *campa*; 3. *gal'a*, *cant'ha*, *gríva*, or *candhara*; 4. *uttara*; 5. *vájina*; 6. *prativájina*; 7. *pat'tíca*; 8. *álinga*; and 9. *antarita*; all which are of a quadrangular form: and 10. *cumuda*; 11. *padma*; 12. *capóta*, &c., which are circular. And as these mouldings frequently occur in the description of the several sorts of pedestals and bases which will be presently exhibited, a brief notice of their respective forms and uses, as well as of their correspondence with the mouldings of similar members in western architecture, may not be a useless preliminary, especially, as it may tend to the disclosure of any mistakes into which I may have fallen, in identifying the mouldings described in books, with those found in the existing models of the art, the technical terms above-mentioned being no longer in use. (See Plate I.)