The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c25.s1.12

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One feature missing from most of these temples, now, is the elegant figure bracket that adorned all the outside pillars of the porches. Resting upon small blocks on the shafts of the pillars, and leaning forward, they were held at their upper ends in a slot in the under side of the cornice. They were usually female figures in the act of dancing or adorning themselves. A few still remain upon the temple at Kuruvaṭṭi (Plate CIX). They are sometimes in the form of rampant lions as on the temples at Rāmappā lake, thirty miles to the north-east of Warangal (Fig. 2).