The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s3.7

v2.c11.s3.7

⁵¹ The vertical, pointed or spatulate termination of the gable or keel arch is plain in rock cut temples from about the beginning of the present era. From about 500 A.D. onwards, the ends of each of the two branches forming the arch, curl up in scrolls, to the right and left of the central extension (Ajaṇṭā) which frequently carries a lotus flower (Paraśurāmeśvar Temple, Bhuvaneśvar; Bundana, Rajputana, etc.; 8th-9th century). The Kīrttimukha is the general finial of the Gavākṣa in the 10th century, in North and South India, but is established there also on earlier monuments (note 68).