The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s8.17

v1.c9.s8.17

⁵² The pillars have their parts adjusted in height to the division of the perpendicular wall (Burgess-Cousens, 'Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat', op. cit., p. 24. Wall and pillars are one in nature; being perpendicular supports, they have the same name (jaṅghā); pillars are carved on the walls; the wall is either pillar or offset and, but for the interior of the Garbhagṛha, where as a rule, it is plain, it scarcely answers to the term wall as understood in architecture elsewhere and also in the earlier temples. Actual pillars on the other hand in extant medieval Hindu temples do not form part of the Prāsāda unless they support the roof of the balconies of Sāndhāra Prāsādas (Fig. on p. 255). Full pillars are an exception in the Prāsāda (Fig. on p. 257). They belong to the Maṇḍapa.