Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t2.32

c5.s3.t2.32

The latter, though it had acted as the prototype, was altogether eclipsed by the quality of Paṭṭadakal reliefs. Yet, in spite of a refined taste, ambiguities could not be altogether overcome. A combination, whimsical at times, of architectonic proportions, flat panels, and figures in high relief, reveals the heterogeneous origin of the various factors. Among these the scroll work, so conspicuous from the days of Bādāmī, is widely used, yet with discretion, in the perforated stone windows. The synthesis of western Dekkhanī with south Indian tradition, withheld from the structural temples at Paṭṭadakal, was the work of sculptors who carved the rock-cut Kailāsanātha temple and the chapel of the river goddesses at Ellora.