Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c10.s5.3

c10.s5.3

The pillars are of a different type to those at Ambarnātha and Balsāne, having a new feature introduced which is found in most of the mediæval temples of North Gujarāt, namely, the water pot and foliage element.¹ It occurs in the temples at Jodghā and Kokamthān already described. In this case, however, the waterpot is rather masked by an ornamental ribbing of lotus buds and stalks which are bound around it by a narrow band or fillet. The foliage, very much conventionalised, hangs over the lip of the jar or pot and forms four corners upon which rests a thin square slab.² The waterpot, with and without foliage, enters very largely into the designs of the pillars in the cave-temples, where, as in the Kārli cave, it forms, without foliage, the greater part of the base and, inverted, the capital of the pillar.