The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s3.5
The Chālukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s3.5
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The four pillars in the temple are of one pattern, and shew a distinct advance on that of Lāḍ Khān, but are not so far advanced as those in Cave III at Bādāmi. The shafts are of the same type as those in the former temple, having no bases, and being square all the way up; but they are provided with a round squat cushion capital between the shafts and the brackets above. These are rather clumsy, and have not the more graceful proportions of those in the cave.¹ The surface decoration on the bands round them, of bead festoons and lozenge-shaped ornament, has been executed with a firmer and much more certain touch than that of Lāḍ Khān, where the prentice hand is apparent. There seems to have been no figure sculpture upon the original building.