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# Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.69

Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.69

- **Language:** English

### [c4.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.69)

A \*prativájina\* (6) is the same thing made in pedestals to answer to the \*vájina\*; its form, though generally rectangular, is sometimes, when placed in cornices, found to be externally a little more inclined to one side than to the other; and in this situation it very much resembles the \*cavetto\*.

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