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 434 CHALUKYAN STYLE. BOOK IV even for one so powerful as he was who undertook it, and before it was heartily taken up again the Muhammadans were upon them (in A.D. 1310), and there was an end of Hindu greatness and of Hindu art. Some of its details, however, are of great beauty, especially the entrances to the shrines, which are objects on which the architects, as usual, lavished their utmost skill. The preceding woodcut (No. 252) will explain the form of those of the great temple, as well as the general ordinances of the pillars of the 253- Kirtti Stambha at Orangal. (From a Photograph.) great mandapa. Nothing in Hindu art is more pleasing than the pierced slabs which the Chalukyas used for screens and windows. They are not, so far as I recollect, used extensively in other styles, but as used by them are highly ornamental and appropriate, both externally and internally.