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the delicacy of the Mauryan column. The sinuous stress to the
tips of the fingers have further exposed the aesthetic sensitiveness
of this composition. Though sinuosity is the main character of this
sculpture but in many occasion the curves specially on the edges
of the body have slightly been eased. Thus, giving a gliding linear
sensation to the sculpture, it however never gives up its heavily
rounded volume. Another interesting point to observe is that a
sensible perity is being maintained in the execution of broad chest
and the waist, which have duly referred to the use of an expertite
hand in composing the sculpture.
Coming to the point of chronology, number of option
are there, as stated above, to call it as being a product of 10th/11th
century rather than 11th/12th century A.D.
E) Tritya Tripura : Fig. 6.5
In the main temple premise, a confident looking three
headed female deity is there in a good shape, (now survived on the
left side), as an indispensable part of the main temple plinth at Madan-
Kamdeva. Two other similar fashioned female sculptures are also found
on the two others sides of the garbha griha of the surviving temple
plinth. But unfortunately these two are already on the verge of their
extinction as they now survived only with the lower part of their
composition. Still their specified position, on the three sides of the
garbha griha as marked as devistana in the (fig 21.3), tempted us to
call her as being the guardian deity of the main temple complex.
Thus, the sculpture of our consideration, though have suffered from
age long erosions (which virtually eliminates some parts of her body)
still appeared to be the best surviving one.