The Hindu Temple v2.c12.28

v2.c12.28

The Nirandhāra Prāsāda was originally dedicated to Viṣṇu. It was a Pañcāyatana temple. The socle more closely resembles that of Pl. I than the one shown in profile on p. 259. The same mouldings, but different in their sequence and proportion, are seen here projecting from the Mānasūtra; the socle grips the ground and makes the walls of the temple appear rooted in it and the several edges of the perpendicular wall appear to rise with a concave flexion. Its impetus is steadied by the entablature mouldings (‘mekhalā’ and ‘antarapatra’, combined with ‘chādya’) in a thrice repeated band whence the Śikhara curves upward and is gathered in the Āmalaka (not shown in Pl. III).