The Hindu Temple v2.c12.208

v2.c12.208

The Pallavikās, the faceted apices of the triangular buttresses, are summed up at the bottom of each of the two sides by a pillared shrine projecting on a console formed of various mouldings. The shrines are replete each with an image of a Parivāra-devatā, such as Gaṇeśa—on the left of the Plate—and with his female counterpart in the adjacent shrine at a right angle, on the same buttress. The triangular pediments of the shrines touch a moulding which is a canopy, shrunk in depth, of the image in its niche, and a clasp of the pillar shape of the "buttresses".