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=== Gavaksha ===
A Gavaksha or chandrashala are often used to describe the motif centred on an ogee, circular or horseshoe arch that decorates many examples of Indian rock-cut architecture and later Indian structural temples and other buildings. It is called a chaitya arch when used on the facade of a chaitya hall, around the single large window. In later forms it develops well beyond this type, and becomes a very flexible unit.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glossary of Asian Art|url=http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/asianartglossary.html#chandrashala|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Art-and-archaeology.com|archive-date=16 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116051840/http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/asianartglossary.html#chandrashala|url-status=live}}</ref> Gavāksha is a Sanskrit word which means "bulls or cows eye". In Hindu temples, their role is envisioned as symbolically radiating the light and splendour of the central icon in its sanctum.<ref>Elgood (2000), 103</ref> Alternatively, they are described as providing a window for the deity to gaze out into the world. Like the whole of the classic chaitya, the form originated in the shape of the wooden thatched roofs of buildings, none of which have survived; the earliest version replicating such roofs in stone is at the entrance to the non-Buddhist Lomas Rishi Cave, one of the man-made Barabar Caves in Bihar.