The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c22.s1.13

c22.s1.13

The graceful curve of the cornice, which in the photograph looks rather heavy and cumbersome, owing to the camera looking down upon it from high ground, is well worth notice, not only for its outward appearance, but also for the very neat manner in which it is ribbed beneath in imitation of wooden framing (Plates XCIII and XCVI). The underneath part of the turned up outer edge of the cornice is very richly wrought with a conventional leaf pattern, while rosettes are repeated, as bosses, between the ribbing underneath.