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corners of the ceiling, they are shown as a pair lustrating a lotus plant. On the sikhara their front part is depicted in the recesses. When they appear at the corners of the roof they are carved wholly in the round and are represented in the walking attitude. The elephants in the hastiśälä of the Vimalavasahi and Lunavasähi are executed out of huge blocks of marble, some profusely decorated with ornaments. In the Vimalavasahi temple, ele-phants frame the stairways leading to mukhamandapa and the gūḍhamaṇḍapa.
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Animals, birds on the south gate, Safichi, 1st-2nd century B.C.
