The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s6.8

c8.s6.8

The pillars are much plainer than those of Lāḍ Khān, and more like those in the temple beside the Kont-Guḍi, only that the band and medallions have not been carved with arabesque as they are there. They were possibly left unfinished (Fig. 10). What these could have been, had they been fully decorated, is seen in the case of the two middle pillars in the lower storey of the Tin Thal at Elūrā, which are most richly carved, on the plain square shaft, while all the rest in the cave are simple squared blocks without a line of relief upon them.¹