The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c13.50

c13.50

Another splendid specimen of seventh-century craftsmanship is a great monolithic model at Mâmallapuram, called now Bhîma's Rath, which reproduces on a smaller scale a two-storied Saivaite monastery. The dimensions of it in the granite rock are 48 feet in length, 25 feet in breadth, and about 26 feet in height. Like most of the raths at Mâmallapuram, it remained unfinished, and owing to the sculptors having gone too far in imitating the details of a structural building, the upper part of the rock split right through the roof, probably while they were working at it.