The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c14.s2.3

c14.s2.3

On the southern doorway, which seems to have lost its porch and to have had a new cornice or *chajja* added above it at some subsequent period, there are, amongst the doorpost mouldings, four inner bands or fasciæ which run up the sides and around the lower part of the entablature above. Next to these, on either side, in the centre, are tall attenuated columns or pilasters, supporting the lower cornice above. Beyond these, again, on either side, are four other bands of mouldings. On the lintel of the doorway is the projecting dedicatory block on which is the favourite group of Lakshmī and her elephants. The remainder of the entablature, above the lower cornice, is principally taken up with—or, rather, was, for only three now remain—a row of eleven small standing figures beneath a lace-like fringe of cusped arching. Above this is a valance of beads hanging in festoons. The illustrations on Plates LXVII and LXVIII will save further detailed description of these rich filigree mouldings which are wrought in the stone with as much care and delicacy as they would have been in silver. Upon either side of the door, at the bottom, are rows of small images, beneath cusped and foliated arches, nine on each side, the central one, at the base of each of the pilasters, being a goddess on one side and, perhaps, a god on the other, but the latter is rather damaged.