Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s3.15

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The third sort of column, with its base and capital, is eight diameters high, with a diminution of the shaft at the top of the eighth part of the thickness at its bottom. The base occupies half a diameter, and this height is to be divided into ten parts; two to be given to the plinth, one to the fillet; three to the *cimacia* and its fillet, one and a half to the cavetto, the same to the torus, and one to the *cimbia*. The whole projection of the base is half of its height. The following passage from the *Mánasára* refers to this kind of base: “Let a base ornamented with the lotus be made under the foot of the pillar, one or two diameters in height, and let it be adorned with figures of demons, lions, and the like.”