The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c26.s1.3

c26.s1.3

But this temple is particularly interesting on account of a few of those richly carved figure brackets which still remain (Plate CIX). They are inserted between the pilasters and the bracket under the beam above, and lean forward. Unfortunately they are badly damaged. They are composed of single slabs, and one wonders how it was possible to carve these delicate and airy whorls of scrollwork in brittle stone; it is such as one would expect in metal only.²