A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c21.94
A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c21.94
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c21.94
The shape of the pillar and its capital was another remarkable feature of this style. The shaft is a monolith fashioned into beautiful shapes by being turned on a lathe, the base being left square. A sloping bracket-stone was set above the capital, to which it was fixed by sockets. These brackets, also monolithic, carried carvings of fine images with leafy aureoles known as *madanakai* figures. Their high finish rivals that of the figures in the niches of the *vimāna*.