Hard granite has been persuaded to sway, to flow, to rise up in
columns so that the texture of the stone itself seems to have changed
and become elastic. The main pavilion contains 56 pillars, each of which
has been carved out of a single granite block in a rich structural unit
with a cluster of slender colonettes raised on crouching animals. When
struck, some of them produce musical notes as though from different
percussion instruments.
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