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Fergusson detects Persian influence on pillars in front of the Bedsa cave south of Karle. ‘The two pillars in front, however, are so much too large in proportion to the rest, that they are evidently *stambhas*, and ought to stand free instead of supporting a verandah. Their capitals are more like the Persepolitan type than almost any other in India, and are each surmounted by horses and elephants bearing men and women of bold and free execution.' In a note, he further adds that, 'in the Pitalkhora *vihāra*, we find the Persepolitan capital repeated with a variety of animals over it, for the Hindu artists, from their natural aptitude for modifying and adapting forms, very soon repeated the bicephalous bull and ram of the Persian columns by a great variety of animals, sphinxes, and even human figures in the most grotesque attitudes.'¹