The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c30.s1.6

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This angular arrangement in the plan has been repeated in some of the pillars. We have already found it in pillars at Naṇṇeśvara at Lakkuṇḍi and Virūpāksha at Aihoḷe.¹ There are, perhaps, no pillars in Chālukyan work that are designed with more complications than these (Plate CXXIX and Fig. 35), and they must have required the utmost amount of patience and care in their chiselling. The pillars of the *maṇḍapa* are of the same style as those in Kāśiviśveśvara at Lakkuṇḍi, though not so elegant or quite so graceful in outline (Fig. 35).