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Appendix. 14
The Cave Temples of India by James Fergusson and James Burgess, 1880, reprint Delhi 1969, page 497, Plate 80, 81.
Indra Sabha - Elura
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Entering the court; on the right side is a large elephant on a pedestal, and on the left stood a fine monolithic column 27 feet 4 inches high, with a quadruple or chaumukha image on the top (see Plate LXXX., fig.2), but it fell over against the rock the day after Lord Northbrook visited the caves. In the centre of the court is a pavilion or manḍapa over a quadruple image, either of Rishabanâtha, the first of the twenty-four Tîthanakaras, or of mahâvîra, the last'; the throne is supported by a wheel and lions, as in Buddhist temples. The style of the pavilion and of the gateway leading into the court is nearly as essentially Dravidian as the Kailâsa itself, and so very unlike anything else of the kind in
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