Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Physical Attributes Facet
3. Design Elements (hierarchy name)
4. design elements (attributes)
5. motifs
6. [figure- and animal-derived motifs]
7. makara

Anotations

Scope note:

In Indian architecture, a makara-shaped gargoyle; makara-shaped water chute or conduit for discharging deity’s lustral water; elsewhere in halls, at eave-cornice, etc.; torana-arch spewed from the mouths of makaras, or formed from their tails.