Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c10.s1.10

c10.s1.10

The central hall has no free-standing pillars, the ceiling being worked up from the pilasters, which are generally square in plan. Heavy architraves form an octagon of unequal sides, from which the domical ceiling rises in rings of concave mouldings to a central pendent rosette, which again falls as a finial. Each group of cup-shaped cusped mouldings, in the three tiers of the pendant, has a separate drop or finial of its own. These drops, with the central one, were fitted in as separate stones, some of which are missing. There are eight figure brackets around the inside of the dome, six of which hold dancing figures, the little squat figures below being musicians.