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TEMPLES IN KAMRUP DISTRICT

In its vertical elevation, the temple consists of three parts, the high basement, and the middle portion of the temple and the Sikhara. As in many other temples. a row of elephants, gajathara, appears as a basement moulding. On a moulding of about two feet above the plinth, a row of caparisoned elephants in high relief encircles the building and appears to bear the full brunt of the edifice. The elephants, all tuskers, are facing outwards, and standing each 16" in height, and are finely designed and executed showing only their tusks, trunks and front legs. The basement moulding is identical with the decorative style of the Kailasa cave temple at Ellora.

The garbhagriha "is a crypt, 14 feet square, into which you descend by a flight of stone steps. It contains the image and its pedestal. The door case to this shrine, is formed of four blocks of granite, and is ten feet high by five feet wide: a lotus over the door- in the entrance of the lintel, is the only ornament. The door opens into an anteroom, also of stone, ten feet by ten feet, having niches of four feet square, stone screens, one on each side with apertures for the admission of light and air, cut in form of lotus flowers. "34

The Sikhara of this imposing Hayagriva temple has a pyramidal plane face, which continues right upto an apex point.


34. Ibid. p. 20.

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