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Devakulika IIB-It is built on a rectangular balcony models and is surmounted by a band of plan, but its space is reduced to a square by leaves, while its underside depicts a row of campaka a framework of four rectangular slabs placed flowers, each flower being set up in a stepped over the architraves. The inner face of the square diamond. The dome is composed of eight courses frame carries a diamond-strip, while its underside and a circular padmašila. The first course is octagonal on two sides shows five depressed lamās, each and the others are circular. The inner face of the consisting of a quatrefoil and a circular kola. The first course is decorated with lotus scrolls punctuaside spaces between the lümās are occupied by ted with Kinnara-couples and geese, while its concave-sided carved diamonds.
underside at each corner is boldly relieved with a
Kinnar-couple making dance or playing on some The ceiling proper consists of two courses. The
musical instruments. From their navel issue first is octagonal. It depicts lotus scrolls on the
creepers which occupy the space at their back. In inner face and a Kinnar-couple at each corner on
one case the Kinnar is represented wearing a beard. the underside. The second is circular and is
The second is karnadardarika decorated with lotus divided into four concentric circular bands. The
petals and surmounted by a band of leaves. The first consists of sixteen-foil large kola. The second,
third is adorned with balcony models. The next built on a level which is lower than that of the
five courses are padmas, each decorated with lotus preceding one, comprises twenty-four-foil small
petal-and-bud ornament. The lowermost of these, kola. The third, built on a higher level surface,
i.e. the fourth course, also sustains eight circular pertains to twelve-foil kola and is edged with
pendants. The padmašila, built on the principle of reverse gajatalu. The fourth, edged with reverse
coradial regression, is composed of four courses, gajatalu and built on a still higher level surface,
separated from one another by reverse gajatālus. consists of a six-foil kola. In the centre of the last
Each of the first three courses consists of twentyband is a flower bud.
four-foil kola, while the fourth comprises twelveDevakulika IIIB-Square on plan it consists of foil kola. The stamenal tube inserted in the last two square courses. The first is a square frame. course is clasped by three rows of petals and termiIt carries a band of leaves and a band of ardha. nates in a bud. padma pattern on the inner face, while its under Devakulika 46A-Square on plan it consists of side shows a projecting lama at each corner and a
two square courses. The first is a square frame band of lotus scrolls punctuated with Kinnara
treated as padma decorated with lotus petals. The couples on each side. Each of the four lāmas
second is samatala; its square flat surface is divided consists of a quatrefoil kola and a circular plaque
into three square bands disposed one within the of reverses gajatalu, and is set up, on the level
other. The outer band consists of a twelve-foil larger surface, in a square bordered by diamonds and kola The intermediate band consists of a twelvebeads. The underside on two sides also depicts a
foil smaller kola and is edged with reverse gajatalu. band of geese. The second is samatala. It repre
The inner band pertains to a quatrefoil kola. In sents mandāraka element into four concentric cir
the centre of the last is a hollowed out circular kola. cular bands consisting of twelve-foil, eight-foil,
" The square frame lifting up the ceiling shows a quatrefoil and circular kolas respectively. The
band of kirttimukhas on the inner face and a strip whole is placed in a lozenge, the corners of which
of lotus petals on the two narrow undersides, are occupied by four-fold (3+1) kolas. The ceiling is raised up by a square frame of four rectan.
46B-Square on plan this ceiling is composed gular slabs carved with a band of kirttimukhas.
of four square courses and a square padmašila. The
courses overlap one above the other and their Devakulikās 42-45-Square on plan this is a corners are so indented as to resemble stepped domical ceiling of the sabhāmandāraka variety. Its diamonds. The inner face of the first course is space is narrowed by a square frame of four recta- adorned with balcony models, while its underside ngular slabs projecting into the space of the ceiling. at each corner depicts three circular kolas, each set The inner face of the frame is adorned with up in a stepped diamond. The decoration of the
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