Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v7.c47.6840

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‘ The two inscribed columns were evidently intended as a pair, though the full view of the second cannot be taken. (From the distance between them, from the difference in the detailed measures, and from the analogous instance of the Eran column, as shewing the way in which they must have been finished off at the top, they can hardly have been connected by a beam, after the fashion of a toraṇa or arched gateway ; and there are no traces of any temple to which they can have belonged). They are evidently an actual instance of two Raṇa-stambhas or “ columns of victory in war,” such as the Kauṭhem grant of Vikramāditya V (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. xvi, p. 18) . . . speaks of as having been set up by the Rāshṭtrakūṭa king Karkara or Kakka III, and as having then been cut asunder in battle by the western Chalukya king Taila II.’—(*C. I. I.*, Vol. iii, F. G. I., no. 33, line 7, pp. 147, 143 f.)