Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. architectural elements
7. [structural elements and components for structural elements]
8. structural elements
9. [supporting and resisting elements]
10. [columns and column components]
11. columns (architectural elements)
12. [columns by form or style]
13. stambhas

Narrower term/s

• bhūtapāda
• ajapāda
• siṁhapāda
• padmapāda
• Nāgapāda
• Viṣṇukānta
• Mēṣapāda
• Rudrakānta
• Īśakānta
• indrakānta
• citrakhaṇḍa
• Brahmakānta
• vyālapāda

Anotations

Scope note:

In Indian architecture, a wall; wall-pilaster, pillar; squares in a maṇḍala-grid; Types: Brahmakānta, Viṣṇukānta, Indrakānta, Rudrakānta, Īśakānta; Ajapāda, Bhūtapāda, Citrakhaṇḍa, Mēṣapāda, Nāgapāda, Padmapāda, Siṁhapāda, Vyālapāda, etc.