The Hindu Temple v2.c12.231

v2.c12.231

The main Śukanāsā (cf. Pl. XLVIII), seen from the front, is a mighty blind, whose inner trefoil arch sums up the rectangular shrine and its accompanying images, in the lower part, and the image of Śiva dancing and his accompanying goddesses in the circle above. Their dancing limbs emerge from and are bathed in deep shadows; shadows underline also the foaming scrolls of the archivolt and have settled in the Makara’s jaws, its issue and riders as well; their repeated images flank the extrados, whereas the figures, carved in the round, to either side of the great Siṃhamukha and the Makaras have broken away.