Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.s3.67

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9. Animals addorsed or with backs touching (*Pṛṣṭha-gamita*), as the lions on the Aśokan Capital, also known as *Saṅghāṭa*, as *Haya Saṅghāṭa*, *Gaja-Saṅghāṭa Simha-Saṅghāṭa* etc, as on the pillar capitals in the Karle Chaitya-hall. These animals were also depicted affronted (*Sammukhī-kṛta*). Sometimes they were depicted as decorative motifs on friezes, coping-stones and lintels of early Indian art, and at other times they are showu in combating poses, e. g. *Garuḍa* and *Nāga* in Mathura relief, or lions and elephants on the high plinth at Ellora. [Fig. 31-32].