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.c47.6878

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(75) 'This inscription (Inscriptions from Nepal, no. 1, dated Saṁvat 386) is incised on the lower part of the broken pillar placed to the left of the door of the temple of Chaṅgu-Nārāyaṇa, about five miles to the north-east of Kāṭmāṇḍu. The pillar about 20 feet high is without the capital. Its lower half is square, half of the upper part is octagonal, higher up it becomes sixteen-cornered and finally round. Originally it was crowned by a lotus-capital surmounted by a Garuḍa, about 4 feet high, shaped like a winged man kneeling on one knee. The workmanship is very good, and the figure shews the flowing locks, which occur frequently on the sculptures of the Gupta period.' Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji and Dr. G. Bühler.—(*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. ix, p. 163, c. 1, para. 2.)