The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c29.s2.3

c29.s2.3

The little pilasters are worked out in all their *minutiæ* as completely as they would have been on their full scale; and the figures which fill all the little panels, some of which are no more than an inch or two in height, are carved in high relief, and are almost detached from the pillar. They are adorned with necklets, bracelets, anklets, and a profusion of other jewellery, each bead and jewel being fashioned with the most careful and delicate touch. Here, again, we find the same brackets over the capital, but even more fully decorated than those above the first pillars described. The scroll forming a band along the top of these is very effective, being so deeply cut that the dark shadows of the interstices contrast sharply with the high lights of the design.