The Hindu Temple v2.c12.45

v2.c12.45

The last consequences of the horizontal division of the Śikhara are drawn in the shape of parallel bands and neckings on the edges of all the Mañjarīs (cf. also Pls. XLVI, XLV, XLVIII). These fillets and their interspaces, visible as parallel light and dark streaks, are the final abbreviations of miniature storeys or tiers of whose sum total the bulk of each Śikhara is made up. But, however manifold and intricate these horizontal themes are, on the total Śikhara (Pl. I) their effect is slight; the horizontal theme which remains in power is that of the corrugated Āmalakas punctuated by their globular Kalaśas and pointed Bījasvaras.