Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c13.s9.22

c13.s9.22

The half lotus band, just above the band of little figures at the top of the basement, is unusual, and although a regular Gujarāt ornament, it is seldom found in that province upon old buildings before the Hindu architects introduced it largely into the decoration of the mosques and tombs which they raised for their Muhammadan conquerors.¹ The pillars remind one much of some of those in the thirteenth century temple of Tejahpāla at Dilwārā on Mount Ābu. They have lost the more graceful outline of those of the eleventh century.