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Faina Temples of Western India
on plan, but its space is reduced to a square by a the tips of the stalks. This is the only ceiling where framework of four rectangular slabs placed over corner slabs are wholly alloted to round figure the architraves. Two of these slabs on the shorter sculptures. sides are treated like a cavetto decorated with a row of lotus flowers with stalks and a band of lotus The ceiling in the southeast bay is ksiptotksipta petals. The two slabs on longer sides are inset with of the nâbhicchanda type. Square on plan this ceiling images of four-armed lalita sana goddesses accompa- displays in diagonal order a grid of 84 limās projecnied by female attendants. The ceiling proper isted and depressed alternately. Each of the depressed composed of six courses and a circular padmašila. Tämäs, disposed in six lines of seven each, consists of The first course is octagonal and the rest are circu- a quatrefoil and a circular kola, and an eight-petalar. The inner face of the first course on each side hled campaka flower, while each of the projected depicts six images of Jinas seated in dhyānamudrā,
lämās, arranged in seven lines of six each, pertains while each of its four corners is occupied by a to a quatrefoil kola and a reverse gajatālu terninafine image of Gaja. Lakşmi seated in padmāsana on a
ting in mandāraka flower. The lūmās on the four throne borne by elephants. The eight-armed sides are only half represented. The ceiling is goddess is flanked on each side by an elephant with raised up by a frame of four rectangular slabs, upraised trunk carrying water pot; on the back of slightly projecting into the space of the ceiling. The elephants are seated two male figures, also carrying underside of the frame is carved with a band of water pot. The sculpture is carved almost diamonds and beads and a band of lotus petals. wholly in the round and projects prominently in the while its inner face is treated as a deep fillet carved space of the ceiling. The second course is adorned with diamonds. The alternate arrangement of pro. with a band of kirttimukhas. The third is padma jected and depressed lamās in this nābhicchanda ceilidecorated with lotus petal-and-bud device and ng is very attractive, producing a rhythmic effect surmounted by a band of intersecting garland loops of light and shade. with pair of geese at intervals. The fourth and fifth are karşadardarikās, each decorated with lotus
The ceiling in the west bay is domical of the sab. petals and surmounted by a row of projecting leaves.
hapadmamandāraka class. Square on plan this ceiling The sixth is a reverse padna decorated with stencilled
is composed of eight courses and a circular padma
fila. The first course is octagonal and the rest are lotus petals and stalks with flowers. Twenty-four
circular. The inner face of the first course is embein number each flower consists of a quatrefoil and
llished with lotus scrolls, while its underside dea deeply set circular kola. The padmašila is made up of four courses. The first, almost concealed from
picts a Kinnar-couple at each corner and a row of
campaka flowers on the two narrow sides. The second, view, consists of a reverse padma decorated with
which is slightly projected into the space of the twenty-four flowers, each flower comprising a
ceiling, represents geese in pair on the extrados and quatrefoil and a deeply set circular kola. The second, a band carved with flamboyant motif on the introverlapping the first, is a normal padma cut out ados. The third is karnadardar ika bearing a band of with lotus petals and stalks carrying sixteen flowers,
F%, flamboyant pattern below and lotus petals above;
flan each flower comprising a quatrefoil and a projecting it is surmounted by a row of projecting leaves. The circular kola. The third is like the second, but each of fourth shows mouldings of a padma adorned with lotus the sixteen flowers here consists of a circular kola. petals and topped by a band of leaves, an arris, a fillet The fourth, overlapping the third, again consists of and an arris. The fifth is a gajatālu carrying campaka a normal padma cut out with lotus petals and stalks flower on the top of each tooth. The sixth, set up carrying sixteen flowers, each resembling a lozenge- in gajatalu, consists of sixteen whorls of four-fold shaped quatrefoil kola. The stamenal tube inserted (3+1) kola. The seventh is similar to the sixth in the fourth course is clasped by two rows of petals. The eighth displays a row of eight projecting lamās, The ceiling is remarkable not only for the nice each comprising a quatrefoil and a circular kola arrangement of the lotus petal-and-bud ornament and a flower bud. The padmašila consists of two but also for the varieties of flowers represented on courses of an eight-foil larger and an eight-foil
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