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Technical Dictionary
Lintel
Machicolations
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Mouldings
Niche Ogee
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Oriel
Pendentive
Plinth Rib Shaft
The horizontal timber or stone also known as architrave that spans an opening. A projecting parapet with floor openings through which molten lead, pitch stones etc. were dropped on the enemy. The contours given to projecting members A recess in a wall A moulding made up of a convex and concave curve A window corbelled out from the face of a wall by means of a projecting stone. Triangular curved overhanging surface by means of which a circular dome is supported over a square of polygonal compartment. A base of building A projecting hand on a ceiling the portion of a column between base and the capital. The ceiling The triangular space enclosed by the curve of an arch An arched covering. Basement of a structure supporting pillars. Ribbed lenticular part resembling amalaka crowning the top of the shikhara. Pillared hall immediately in front of the principal structure or distat half of a mandapa with two separate pillars. Shrine Facade without columns
Soffit Spandrel
Vault Adhisthana
Amalka
Ardhamandapa
Ayatana Aslytar
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