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petals; between the petals are also inserted small campaka flowers. From the centre of the pendant issues a small stamenal tube terminating in a campaka flower.
On plan the ceiling in the south bay follows the preceding ceiling, but in structure it is domical of the sabhämandaraka type. The inner face of the square frame is carved with a row of geese, while its underside on two sides shows relief carvings.
" The reliefs on one side debict Krsna and Gokula, and those on the other two represent a king on simha. sana, his guards and warders, stables of horses and elephants, the king's palace, etc.55 The ceiling proper is composed of six courses and a circular padmafila. The first course is octagonal and the rest are circular. The inner face of the first course is carved with diamonds, while its underside at each corner depicts a Kinnara-couple. The second is adorned with a band of kirttimukhas. The third is karnadardarika. The other three consist of padmas, each decorated with lotus petal-and-bud motif. The badmašila consists of three courses of sixteen pointed triangular, eight-foil and eight-pointed triangular kolas, and a stamenal tube clasped by three rows of petals. Between the kolas are set up reverse gajatalus.
depicts nine very slightly projecting lamās in three lines of three each. Each lima consists of a quatrefoil kola and a stamenal tube terminating in mandāraka flower, and is bordered by a band of diamonds and beads. The whole is surrounded by a line of gajatālu. The ceiling is raised up by a square frame of four rectangular slabs projecting out in the space of the ceiling. The inner face of the frame is inset with projecting niches containing diamonds and is topped by a strip of leaves, while its underside is adorned with ardhapadma pattern.
The six ceilings in the northern portico are as follows:
Square on plan the ceiling in the northwest bay consists of two courses and a large circular slab. The first course is octagonal. It represents lotus scrolls on the inner face and a kirttimukha at each corner on the underside. The second, circular in form, consists of padma decorated with flamboyant pattern and surmounted by a row of projecting leaves. The circular slab is samatala having its flat surface divided up into three concentric circles. Edged with reverse gajatalu the outer circle consists of reverse padma carved with lotus petal-and-bud device. The intermediate circle is similar to the outer one, but the soffit of its convex-sided part is adorned with a band of diamonds and beads. The central circle, also edged with reverse gajatalu, represents a campaka flower set up in a border of diamonds and beads. The ceiling is raised up by a square frame of four rectangular slabs adorned with a band of kiritimukhas.
The ceiling in the south west bay is kşiploksipta of the nābhicchanda order. Square on plan it depicts a grid of twenty six lūmās, projected and depressed alternately. Besides, there are half lamās on the sides. All the limās are arranged diagonally. Each lãmā consists of a quatrefoil kola and a small stamenal tube clasped by one row of petals. The ceiling is raised up by a square frame of four rectangular slabs. The frame is treated like a padma decorated with stencilled lotus petals and surmounted by a projecting band of ardhapadma pattern and a band of geese,
The ceiling in the north bay is rectangular on plan, but its space is reduced to a square by a
Square on plan the ceiling in the southwest bay is of the samatala mode (Fig. 101). It consists of two square courses. The inner face of the first is carved with a band of leaves and a band of lotus scrolls, while its underside depicts a file of sixteen fine projecting lãmās, each consisting of two rows of eight incurved petals each and a flower bud carved in the centre. The second is samatala. Freed from all the four sides by a sharp cutting it depicts scenes of the birth of Krsna. The scenes are arranged, one within the other, in four square panels gradually projecting towards the centre. 56 This is one of the finest ceilings in this temple in so far as the lämās are concerned. Ordinarily the lümās consist of foils of kola, but here their rib-contents have been eliminated, so that they look subtlier than the other lūmās in this temple.
Square on plan the ceiling in the northwest bay is a kşipta vitana of the nābhicchanda order. It
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