CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Chota Kailasa, Ellora, Maharashtra

The talav is a stepped water body surrounded with small platforms with small pavilions. The pavilions or chattris are octagonal in shape, with cusped arched openings and are covered with domes. The Chattris are constructed of red sandstone. The Talav is in a fairly good state, clean and well maintained by the owners, who are descendents of Seth Chuhimal. The soruce of water is perennial from a nearby canal. Provision was also made to channelise the rain water into the tank. Remains of the man-made water channels can still be traced.

Cintadurai Vinayaka temple, Tamarakulam, Kerala

Circular Baoli, Delhi

Cistern, Bedsa, Maharashtra

The Colisvara temple is the smaller of the two shrines of the Avani-Kandrapa-Isvaram temple built at Kilaiyur under Aditya I (871-907 CE). The other one is the Agastisvara shrine. Colisvara is a double storied stone shrine. The crowning cupola (shikhara) is circular and bell-shaped with a fine finial (stupi) over it unlike the square shikhara and stupi of its twin shrine making this a unique feature of the Avani-Kandrapa-Isvaram temple at Kilaiyur. References: S.R. Balasubrahmanyam, 1963, pp. 20-25, M. Boothalingam, 1971, 64-66