The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s1.36

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structural architecture and provide the ground for the display of reliefs. Their arrangement is closely allied to paintings such as are made even to-day on scrolls (paṭ, in Bengal; to be seen in vertical succession) : these would have their carved correspondence on the jambs ;-- scrolls to be rolled and unrolled horizontally which were known to ancient India (‘Mudrā-rākṣasa’, I; ‘Harṣacarita’, V; cf. Kramrisch, ‘Viṣṇudharmottara’, Pt. III. 2nd ed. p. 7; introduction) seem to have been the prototypes of the carvings of the yoke-shaped beams, ending as these do (Sāñcī, Stūpas I; III) with a carved spiral on either side suggestive of all the painted matter ‘rolled up’ and of which only the central part is exposed on the beam.