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Photographs of architecture and scenery in Gujarat and Rajputana (1874)

Murray, C, Burgess, James, 1832-1916 · Calcutta : Bourne & Shepherd · leaf 82

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is sculptured with a richness and complexity of design almostunrivalled even in those days of patient prodigality of labour. The temple, however, is but a small one,and the neatly carved spire, with its urn-like kalas or finlal, only rises to a height of fifty-eight feet, so that,as has been well… … •Jo < H s oo n% <: CO ■J XX TEMPLES AND COLUMN AT BARULL 0/ the exterior. It consists of a square within the entablature, of about 12 ft. 6 in., the corners of which arecut off by four slabs, so as to reduce it to a square of about 9 feet, placed diagonally to the other. Thisoperation is…

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