The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c9.36

v1.c9.36

In works on architecture, mention is made of mounmental columns having an unbroken cylindrical shaft from plinth to capital, and the Aśoka *lāṭs* afford the most remarkable instances of structures of that kind; but in Orissa, they have nowhere been met with. The nearest approach to them is offered by the monumental pillars of Puri and Jājapur, and they are polygons of sixteen sides. The column in front of the Bhogamaṇḍapa at Bhuvaneśvara has a rounded shaft; but it is quite modern, probably not a hundred years old.