The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c29.s2.2

c29.s2.2

The pair of pillars in advance of these, which stand on the corners of the stone seat, one on each side of the entrance, are the most elaborately worked of all; and there are, perhaps, no other pillars throughout the whole extent of Cālukyan handicraft left to us which are equal to these for the crowded abundance of minute work which covers their surfaces. The ornament consists of repetitions of miniature shrines, tiny pilasters, panels containing Liliputian gods, goddesses and attendants, rampant lions, and a host of other detail.