History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c46.29

v2.c46.29

In respect of ornamentation there is a vast difference between the Paraśurāmeśvara on the one hand and the twin temples of Gandharāḍi and the Mukteśvara on the other. In the Paraśarāmeśvara we meet with chaitya-windows on the body of the *Vimāna* and the *Śikhāra*, which are very slightly stylized in form; but on the facades of the *Jagamohana* there are quite a number of chaitya-window *motifs* carved in very low relief of the pure early Gupta style with large medallions, with a round or with a long angular projection towards the top, proving that the structure which bears them cannot be very far removed from the Imperial Gupta period. These Chaitya-windows fall into two different divisions :