The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s3.29

v2.c11.s3.29

⁶⁶ The Gavākṣas—especially of the Śikharas of Nāgara Temples which they cover with their web—have come to denote an indefinite number of the shrines of the gods which they indicate ‘pars pro toto’, and which have been coalesced in one total mansion. On the Bhūmis however of the South Indian Jāti Prāsādas the various chapels of the gods preserve their several shapes intact and bear the variously large Gavākṣas, the Nāsās and Kudus, as frequently repeated, though always detached, shapes (Fig. on p. 187).