Its upper walls are covered with carved images of dancers; a stone reminder of the women who filled these halls with movement, color and music long ago.

上层的墙上刻满了跳舞者的形象。这些石雕提醒人们，很久以前，一些女子曾以舞蹈、色彩及音乐充实了这几座殿堂。

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The stone relief were put in ancestral halls and tombs as architectural decorations, but most of them are found on the brick walls in tombs.

画像石通常是作为建筑装饰，镶嵌在祠堂、陵阙、更多是墓室内的门侧的砖室上。

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You pass the great stone halls of, say, M. I. T., and there cut into the stone are the names of the scientists.

你走过，比方说，麻省理工学院的宏伟的石头大厅，那里的石头上刻着科学家的名字。

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Anyone can receive a blessing from the temple elephant, Lakshmi. (After you give her a 100-rupee note, she whacks you gratefully on the head.) But train passengers have a special advantage: You go back at night to Hampi's central Vittala Temple complex, a compound of intricately sculpted halls with rows of pillars and the central stone chariot that gives the train its name.

FORBES: Photograph: Andre Fanthome (RAAS)