The Hindu Temple v2.c12.71
The Hindu Temple v2.c12.71
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v2.c12.71
The coping of the Vedi projects boldly over each capital shape; it recedes with a Gavākṣa-pediment, flanked by air-spirits, above each of the large Kīrttimukha-scroll-creeper-panels. Its wider projections are carved as miniature triple roofs, each (tri-chādya) crowned by an Āmalaka. The hard horizontal shadow thrown by the coping is intensified by a broader and more mellow band of shadows which cling to the rugged triple-rooflet shapes and to the lotus petal cyma above them.