Column from Kailasanatha: Lankesvara Cave

Although at Ellora we find occasional examples of the 'jar-and-foliage' capital typical of Indo-Aryan Buildings, the vast majority of the columns reveal the Dravidian order almost entirely evolved. The pillars have a square or polygonal base, succeeded by an octagonal shaftat the summit of the shaft the reeded neck of the pillar is constircted beneath a bulbous cushion type of capital which continues the lines of chanelling on the neck. A modification of this type can be seen in the free-standing pillars in the court, and, in its usual form, in the columns of the mandapa. (Rowland, p. 185