The Colas c36.29

c36.29

Fig. 21. Devotee, in a niche in the temple at Śrīnivāsanallūr, Tiruchirapalli District. Stands in the *samabhaṅga* pose on the double lotus pedestal. Hands crossed across the chest and kept in the attitude of reverence and obedience. *Karaṇḍamakuṭa* and other ornaments are seen. Right leg of the figure is broken. The modelling is fine, proportions of limbs are excellent, the decoration is restrained and the general treatment is highly realistic and aesthetically of high order. These are characteristic of sculpture of the 9th-10th centuries in South India as exemplified at Kumbakonam, Koḍumbāḷūr, Śrīnivāsanallūr and other places. The figures are, as a rule, slender and beautiful and placed in niches on the walls of sanctum. Flanking the niche is a pair of beautiful pilasters.