| Temples & Legends Of Bihar |
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KONCH |
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| Beglar's
account of the -external shape of the Konch temple is interesting and may be quoted. He
observed: "The external shape of the tower, however, differs from that of the
great Buddha Gaya temple in being a curved and not a straight-sided pyramid; it is
consequently more graceful than the temple at Buddha Gaya.
The ornamentation externally consists of a great oval on each face, at a point nearly
in the middle of the total height of the tower proper, and of various mouldings and
indentations rather sparingly used; the whole of the ornamen- tation is of brick cut to
shape, and it is evident from the way the ornaments are distributed, that the whole of it
was cut on the external faces of the tower after it had been built up plain. The labor
required may easily be imagined too; this is due to the fact that the face of the
brick-work is so even; for I do not think it possible without subsequent laborious rubbing
down, that any amount of care in setting the bricks, and iri the preservation of the shape
and sharpness of edges of the bricks during manufacture, could produce the wonder- fully
smooth even face that the work has to this day, not with- standing the ravages of time. |
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