Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c31.3

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moulded into religious forms mingled with luxuriant fancies. Even these magnificent tokens of the material resources and passionate devotion were insufficient to express adequately the spiritual consciousness of the time, so that it became the custom to encrust with gems and precious stones, not only the images, but also their canopies and shrines None the less under this apparent excess of superficial richness there is revealed a feeling for architectural form and fitness, which indicates that in the main these Solanki temples were notable for their aesthetic excellence and structural efficiency.