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| The features of
these lamp-bearers vary from pillar to pillar, showing the different styles of dressing
and decorating the hair. The different designs of ornaments used in olden days can
also be seen. Only one such Deepalakshmi was not disfigured and mutilated, and that is the
one which a faces Siva, apparently out of fear of that divinity. In the northern
corridor there are four musical pillars cut out of a single block of granite stone, in the
fashion of slender cylindrical rods, producing different musical sounds when tapped. Two
pillars have 33 cylinders arid, the other two have 25 cylinders. One pillar having 33 cylindrical rods gives the sound of Jalataranga and
the other one of a Tambura. One of the pillars having 25
cylindrical rods gives the sound of Mridangam (drum) and the other of the Sitar (the harp)
- Selection of the different kinds of stones which can produce different musical notes,
and the skill shown in making the cylinders numbering 33 and 25 from a single block of
granite with the crude chisel of the sculptors, is a real marvel, which should be seen to
be understood. |
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