Indian Sculpture c8.282

c8.282

Nāga-hood, flute playing, worshipping, and manifesting itself intertwined around a pilaster, which has no other purpose but to serve their presence (see the motif of Nāga and round pilaster on Mukteśvar and Rāja-rāni temples, Bhuvaṇeśvar²³⁷), is embedded in a recess framed by horizontal bands on a projection on the right, and by a pilaster with vertical ornamentation of its flat shaft on the left. The wholly non-tectonic and purely plastic articulation of this monument is carried out most consequentially and in every detail.