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The Vertical Parts of the Mandapa
421 Pillars of the Luņavasahi at Abu.
Pillars are more varied and comprised of four types :
(1) These support the central ceiling and among themselves have three types.
(a) These have dancing figures on the basement mouldings and nothing above.
(b) These have dancing figures above the first brackets. (c) These have simple and close, vertical fluting.
(2) These support the maņdapa of the shrine and are profusely decorated with sculptures and carvings.
(3) These support the corridors and are decorated with hexagonal or octagonal cuttings, kirtimukhas and simple brackets.
(4) Short pillars supporting the side-porches of the shrine, sculptured with small minjature śikharas. 26
The Pillars of the temple at Sarotra.
The pillars resemble more to the Jain temples at Abu than those of the Hindu temples of the period. Burgess illustrates four types:
(1) Simple with Octagonal bases, and shafts divided into three sections; octagonal or hexagonal, sixteen-sided, and circular with dwarf brackets.
(2) Smaller; the base similar to the first type, but decorated with seated figures; shaft also similar upto the lower middle, above which there are four bands of leaves, lozenges, kirtimukhas and caitya windows and brackets with incurved volutes.
(3) Profusely decorated, resemble, similar pillars in the temple at Ghumali, the Somnatha temple and Tejapala's temple at Abu.
26. AG. P. 108-109.
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