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Chap. IV. TEMPLE OF NAKHON WAT. 675
Even if this is disputed, one thing at least is certain, that no such
pillars occur anywhere in India. At NaJdxon Wat there is not a single
bracket-capital nor an Indian base. The pillars nowhere change into
375. Gen em) View of 1cm] lc of Nakhon Wat. (From a Photograph by Mr. J. Thornton.)
octagons or polygons of sixteen or thirty-two sides,1 and all the en-
tablatures are as unlike Indian forms as can well be conceived. At
1 Outside the temple the sides of the
causeways are in places ornamented with
dwarf columns of circular form. They
seem to simulate a bundle of eight reeds,
and have tall capitals.
Even if this is disputed, one thing at least is certain, that no such
pillars occur anywhere in India. At NaJdxon Wat there is not a single
bracket-capital nor an Indian base. The pillars nowhere change into
375. Gen em) View of 1cm] lc of Nakhon Wat. (From a Photograph by Mr. J. Thornton.)
octagons or polygons of sixteen or thirty-two sides,1 and all the en-
tablatures are as unlike Indian forms as can well be conceived. At
1 Outside the temple the sides of the
causeways are in places ornamented with
dwarf columns of circular form. They
seem to simulate a bundle of eight reeds,
and have tall capitals.