The Hindu Temple v2.c12.226

v2.c12.226

Against this background of carved lace are set the images of the Śukanāsā; sculptures in the round along its edge, they play their short drama from Kīrttimukha to Kīrttimukha (only the group on the right is preserved); between them is extended the Gavākṣa-part of the antefix. Pointed extrados and circular intrados circumscribe its frame—as they did when the arch of manifestation, the arch of Prakṛti, conveyed by its form only the meaning which since was summed up in the Face of Glory and given exposition in the creamy plenitude of waves of carved figures and shapes.