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The Vertical Parts of the Ma峁囜笉apa At Kasara, the bracket capital is carved with Kicaka. 48 The Capital of the Pillars of the Modhera Temple. 427 The capital are simple, composed of three tiers of flat
members or annulets-two with wedge-shaped edges, and the
upper most with a 'drop' projection. On this rest the brackets
which are as a rule of one block. The side brackets of the eight
central shafts are shaped as makara-heads and from them
spring the tora峁嘺s; but the others represent fat dwarfs
supporting the beams. These figures are styled Kicakas-said to
be after Kicaka, crushed to death by Bhimasena and rolled
into a ball.
The capital of the pillars with tall columns, rising directly
from the floor at the Modhera temple is crowned with a
makara-bracket in the case of eight stilted pillars while the rest
are crowned with dwarfs. Each of the eight stilted pillars is
further surmounted with a short circular shaft and capital
identical with the one just described and this is crowned with
a bracket or volutes and pendent leaves.49
The capital of the pillar of the mandapa of the sun temple
on Hiranya, as at Modhera, consists, of two annulets, without
the drop-projection, and is surmounted with brackets of
volutes and pendent bells.50
The brackets of the columns of the mandapa of the
Navalakha temple at Ghumali are great in variety. They are
sculptured each with different devices such as kirtimukhas,
kicaka, a bird triming feathers, an elephant, large human face,
two monkeys with a common head, a bird with a flower in a
beak, a horse with a man, a pair of bullocks butting, an elephant
and a horse, a cock, a sheep, a swords man and an elephant,
a pair of birds, a couple of fishes, three monkeys etc. 51
48. AANG. p. 107.
49. AANG. pp. 77-80.
50. AG. p. 92.
51. AKK. p. 180. also plt XLIII Here Fig. 259.