Column from Kailasanatha: Lankesvara Cave
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Zimmer, Heinrich Robert
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
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Although at Ellora we find occasional examples of the 'jar-and-foliage' capital typical of Indo-Aryan Buildings, the vast majority of the columns reveal the Dravidian order almost entirely evolved. The pillars have a square or polygonal base, succeeded by an octagonal shaft
at the summit of the shaft the reeded neck of the pillar is constircted beneath a bulbous cushion type of capital which continues the lines of chanelling on the neck. A modification of this type can be seen in the free-standing pillars in the court, and, in its usual form, in the columns of the mandapa. (Rowland, p. 185)
at the summit of the shaft the reeded neck of the pillar is constircted beneath a bulbous cushion type of capital which continues the lines of chanelling on the neck. A modification of this type can be seen in the free-standing pillars in the court, and, in its usual form, in the columns of the mandapa. (Rowland, p. 185)
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1955
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