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12 Temple. 13 Foundation stone. 14 The layer of dressed stone covering the foundation and occuring just beneath
the temple's plinth courses. 15 The plinths, optionally two or three, customarily support the base of the temple. 16 Inverted cyma recta. It is the first moulding of the temple base. 17 The kanālikā is an aggregate of two main mouldings, namely the karnaka
(sharp-edged torus) and the grāspatti (band of kīrtimukha-s). 18 Course showing elephant fronts. 19 Course showing profile of horses in formation. 20 The word used here is narottamah, possibly meaning 'kings.' 21 The band showing scenes from human life. 22 From the khuraka start the mouldings of the vedibandha which is the lower
part of the wall proper. In practice, this moulding is rectilinear (and not splayed
out) from early eleventh century onwards. 23 Pitcher moulding. 24 Probably Brahmā, Visnu and Siva. 25 The central offsets of the kumbhaka moulding. 26 Pedestal moulding of the image-frame decorating the temple wall. 27 The middle section of the wall oftener showing images of deities and apsaras
damsels. 28 Heavenly clan-leaders 29 The ribbed cyma awning of the Cornice 30 Seven mother-goddesses 31 The large central ceiling of a mandapa hall 32 Possibly the jālaka of the sikhara is implied, unless the author has in mind the
grille of the hall proper. 33 Half leaning spires of the śikhara. 34 Main spire is implied. 35 Sikhā normally should mean the finial. But the finial comes further ahead at the
apex. So the term may mean the terminal of the central latā-shoot of the śikhara-jāla.
