kudu
‘Nest’; The arched-window motif (chaitya-window motif) on roof-line with a shovel- or lion-head top (horse-shoe-shaped decorative element on the facade of a monument) out of a flexed cornice (kapota), originally perhaps intended for entry of roosting birds (kapota) but in later examples filled with human figures (mithuna, etc.), surmounted finial.
The arch is usualley a makara-torana.
Kudu (Airavatesvara Temple in Darasuram)
