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Chap. III.
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4i
elephants on each side of very excellent workmanship, and
with rich trappings sculptured with the most exquisite precision.
The Moslim has, however, carried off or destroyed their riders.1
The temple is entered on the south-west, from the court
between it and Vimala’s by a stair at the south of the enclosure.
The plan is in imita-
tion of the older
temple, from which it
differs but little in size,
measuring over all
about 155 ft. by 92 ft.
(Woodcut No. 285).
The pillars support-
ing the porch are
somewhat taller and
of eight different
types, as may be
noted in the photo-
graph (Plate XX).
On the other hand,
in Vimala’s the
general style of the
nth century is ad-
hered to through-
out ; the dome of
the portico is slightly
less in diameter than
in the former, but
quite rivalling it in
elaboration of detail
and beauty of design.
On the octagon
formed by the
massive architraves across the heads of the pillars rests the dome
(Woodcut No. 286). In both temples a single block in the
angles of the octagon suffices to introduce the circle. Above the
second row of ornaments sixteen bracket pedestals are intro-
duced supporting statues, and in the centre is a pendant of the
most exquisite beauty; the whole is in white marble, and
finished with a delicacy of detail and appropriateness of orna-
ment which is probably unsurpassed by any similar example
to be found anywhere else. Those introduced by the Gothic
architects in Henry VII.’s chapel at Westminster, or at Oxford,
are coarse and clumsy in comparison. It is difficult, by any
1 ‘ Picturesque Illustrations of Indian Architecture,’ p. 40 ; Tod’s ‘ Travels in
Western India,’pp. 106-109, hi,
285. Temple of Tejahpala, Mount AM.
(From a Plan by Mr. H. Cousens.)
Scale 50 ft. to 1 in.
MOUNT ABU.
4i
elephants on each side of very excellent workmanship, and
with rich trappings sculptured with the most exquisite precision.
The Moslim has, however, carried off or destroyed their riders.1
The temple is entered on the south-west, from the court
between it and Vimala’s by a stair at the south of the enclosure.
The plan is in imita-
tion of the older
temple, from which it
differs but little in size,
measuring over all
about 155 ft. by 92 ft.
(Woodcut No. 285).
The pillars support-
ing the porch are
somewhat taller and
of eight different
types, as may be
noted in the photo-
graph (Plate XX).
On the other hand,
in Vimala’s the
general style of the
nth century is ad-
hered to through-
out ; the dome of
the portico is slightly
less in diameter than
in the former, but
quite rivalling it in
elaboration of detail
and beauty of design.
On the octagon
formed by the
massive architraves across the heads of the pillars rests the dome
(Woodcut No. 286). In both temples a single block in the
angles of the octagon suffices to introduce the circle. Above the
second row of ornaments sixteen bracket pedestals are intro-
duced supporting statues, and in the centre is a pendant of the
most exquisite beauty; the whole is in white marble, and
finished with a delicacy of detail and appropriateness of orna-
ment which is probably unsurpassed by any similar example
to be found anywhere else. Those introduced by the Gothic
architects in Henry VII.’s chapel at Westminster, or at Oxford,
are coarse and clumsy in comparison. It is difficult, by any
1 ‘ Picturesque Illustrations of Indian Architecture,’ p. 40 ; Tod’s ‘ Travels in
Western India,’pp. 106-109, hi,
285. Temple of Tejahpala, Mount AM.
(From a Plan by Mr. H. Cousens.)
Scale 50 ft. to 1 in.