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The Structural Temples of Gujarat
appears to be round or square) having four panels only, one on each face; the small pilasters have griffons attached as brackets to the outward side. Above this is a smaller band having eight panels with sitted goddesses; over this the shaft is circular and adorned with a band of leaves, then a row of chakwas and above it a band of lozenges, and finally the Kirtimukha band below the capital. This is simple, consisting of low torus, and an annulet. 20
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The other type of columns found outside the octagon is much simpler. Its construction is similar, but is devoid of any figure decoration, the other decoration consists of a pointed leaf for the base and the octagon section and a Kirtimukha band interspread with fishes for the circular section of the shaft, 21
Pillars of the Navalakha temple at Sejakpur.
Pillar-decoration is akin to that of the temple at Ghumali. The pillars are octagonal and have a band of Chakwas, birds, among other things. Where as among sculptures of the brackets. is found a large solitary face (of a lion ?) besides the usual dwarfs.22
The Pillars in the Rudramahālaya at Siddhpur
The shafts of these pillars are of single blocks 3.1 m. in height, and the outer pairs which form the main supports are much more massive than the intermediate one; exclusive of the brackets they are nearly one and quarter meter in diameter. while the smaller are nearly one meter and have the heavy attached brackets.
In the large decorated columns, the divisions and mouldings are the same, and arranged in the same order and relative height, as the mouldings and horizontal divisions of the walls
20. Here Figs. 88. 258/b. 21. AG. pp. 102-105.
22. AG. pp. 105-106.
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