Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s1.3

c4.s1.3

According to *Mánasára*, there are three kinds of pedestals; of which the first is called *védibhadra*, the second *pratibhadra*, and the third *manchabhadra*. Each of these are again divided into four sorts, making in all twelve, and each differing from the other in formation and in its ornaments, whatever may be its height in regard to the base with which it is connected. The remainder of this chapter is taken up with a detailed enumeration of the parts composing the different sorts of pedestals, but as I have marked the proportions in the designs themselves (Plate I.), it would be superfluous to specify them in this place. To enable the reader, however, to form a judgment on the original rules from which the drawings are made, the following extracts respecting the three principal kinds of pedestals are submitted.