[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834) › c4.61 # Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.61 Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.61 - **Language:** English ### [c4.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.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.) - [Previous: c4.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.60) - [Next: c4.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.62) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.61) · Pramāṇa