The Hindu Temple v2.c12.227

v2.c12.227

The image enshrined in the centre of the Gavākṣa, in its dark halo, is surrounded by receding levels of wicker-work pattern, dotted dark and light. Its basis is the apex of the roof of the temple below. It has the shape of a pyramid and consists of roof-tiers (cf. Fig. c, on p. 181). A heavy abutment, a multiple band of horizontal shadows separates this lower shrine with its smaller acolytes, their images and manifold detail—Śārdūla on elephant, the broad scroll work of the arch held together by its key-form, the diminutive Kīrttimukha—from the ‘Gavākṣa’.