The Colas c35.51

c35.51

An interesting feature is the extension of an alternating series of the three types of *pañjaras*, square, rectangular, and apsidal, over the *yāḷi* frieze along the edges on three sides of the terrace over the *mahāmaṇḍapa* and *agramaṇḍapa*, a feature noted in the front *maṇḍapa* of Vijayālayā-cōḷeśvara and in the Cāḷukyan temples; the porch of the Airāvateśvara, however, carries not *pañjaras*, but *nandis* on the edge of its terrace.