[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.s3.28 # Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s3.28 Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s3.28 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s3.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.s3.28) At the foot of the shaft, a space equal in height to the hypothenuse of the lower diameter is made quadrangular, around which are sculptured images of the deities, and the like, in bas-relief. In about half a diameter above this, is made the ornament called \*nágaband'ha\*.cont:† The remainder of the shaft, about three diameters and a half, is made to consist of eight sides, including the strings of pearls, which occupy three-quarters of a diameter, and appear to be suspended from the fillet of the upper ornament called \*padmaband'ha\*,cont:‡ which takes up half a diameter. Next above this is the \*calasa\* or water-pot, about three-quarters of a diameter; and above this are made, with the same height given to them, three other mouldings, called in the language of architecture, \*herica\*, \*asya\*, and \*tatica\*, which last projects a fourth part of the diameter. Above these again is the lower collarino, in height about a quarter of a diameter, then the ornament called \*cumb'ha\*, which is half a diameter high and projects as much; next the upper collarino, a little less than the lower one; next the moulding called \*p'halaca\*, which is one diameter high, and projects equal to its height; next the third collarino, about three-fourths of a diameter; and last of all, the capital of the kind called \*pushpaband'ha\*, which has already been described.∗ - [Previous: c4.s3.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.s3.27) - [Next: c4.s3.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.s3.29) - [Up: c4.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.s3.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.raz-1834.c4.s3.28) · Pramāṇa