The Hindu Temple v2.c12.292

v2.c12.292

Different figures in the various temples of India fulfil the functions and hold the place of the Vimānapālas. The head on Pl. LXI is that of a Ṛṣi—the seven Ṛṣis, according to ‘Nirukta’, XV. 37 are the ‘rays of the Sun’—its countenance however, turbaned and bearded, belongs to the people of the country and is cast in a heroic (vīra) mould.